Bridget Bate Tichenor (UK/MX, 1917-1990) updated

Bridget Bate Tichenor (22 Nov 1917 – 20 Oct 1990) born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate, also known as Bridget Tichenor or B.B.T.,

Bridget Bate Tichenor with her sculpture “The Imprisoned”. Photo Kati Horna, c. 1975

Bridget Bate Tichenor
“Idealista No. 3” Oil and plaster on masonite

Bridget Bate Tichenor, “GUIA I” 1984,
Oil on Masonite

Bridget Bate Tichenor
Llegada de Capricornio, 1985

Bridget Bate Tichenor “Los surrealists” (The Surrealists),
also known as “Los Especialistas” (The Specialists), 1956, Oil on Masonite

Bridget Bate Tichenor
Escena Profetica, 1976

Bridget Bate Tichenor , Untitled (double-sided work), s.d., oil and plaster on masonite

Bridget Bate Tichenor, Al Ratito, ca. 1975
oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm. (8 x 8 in.)

Tichenor was a Paris born, Mexican based Surrealist painter (of Fantasy Art in the school of Magic Realism), as well as a Fashion Editor. Born in France and of British descent, she later embraced Mexico as her home.

Bridget Bate Tichenor 1978,
by Francesco Scavullo

Bate Tichenor’s painting technique was based upon 16th-century Italian tempera formulas that artist she learned in New York in 1945, where she would prepare an eggshell-finished gesso ground on masonite board and apply (instead of tempera) multiple transparent oil glazes defined through chiaroscuro with sometimes one hair of a #00 sable brush.

Bate Tichenor considered her work to be of a spiritual nature, reflecting ancient occult religions, magic, alchemy, and Mesoamerican mythology in her Italian Renaissance style of painting. via Wikipedia (edited)