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Ithell Colquhoun ( 19041988 ) was a British Surrealist painter and author. She was born in Shillong , Assam , India . From the 1930s to her death, her work was exhibited widely in Britain and Germany .

She studied at the Slade School Of Art in London , and later travelled to France to study the Surrealist masters, especially Salvador Dalí . However she was actually expelled from the London Surrealist Group for not giving her unconditional support to E.L.T. Mesens in 1940 .

She married in 1943 and was divorced by 1948 .

Best known for her paintings, Colquhoun invented new Surrealist Techniques , including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage. She was also an author, playwright, and poet.

Throughout her life she was deeply interested in the Occult , especially the Kabbalistic Tree Of Life . Her early membership to the Golden Dawn was rejected, but she later became a member of the similar O.T.O.

Colquhoun died on April 11 , 1988 in Cornwall , where she had lived most of her life.