A poet, painter, and photographer, Edith Rimmington is an early member of the British Surrealist Group. Her art – automatic writing and drawing – is frequently in their exhibitions and her paintings are noted for the delicateness of the trait and the precision of application. Her subjects are death, the sea, poetic metamorphosis, and unsettling sexual innuendos. Her photographic experimentation became prominent in her late career, with coastal landscapes being her most frequent subjects.
