Swinging 60s surrealist Penny Slinger: `Collectors thought I came with the art`
(The Guardian Culture News)

She made psychic dolls houses, erotic wedding cakes and full-frontal collages. But the world wasn´t ready for her powerful personal visions. Is `Lady Picasso´ about to get her dues?Penelope Slinger has never done anything by halves. She remembers drawing her first `really accomplished` picture in 1952, when she was four and a half. It was of her parents - completely naked. They were terribly proud but too embarrassed to show their friends. Then, when she was nine, she was expelled from her Surrey convent school for waving a sanitary towel out of a bus window. A child psychologist informed her parents that she wasn´t mad, she was simply an artist, and they should do what they could to support her.`I was completely out of left field,` says Slinger with a laugh. `Their embarrassment about how far I would push the boundaries - those seeds were planted when I was very young. I just continued on that trajectory.` Continue reading...