British surrealism aspired to be a radical art movement, founded in 1936 by Paul Nash (1889-1946) Eileen Agar (1899-1991) Emmy Bridgwater (1906-1999) David Gascoyne (1916-2001) Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) Conroy Maddox (1912-2005) ELT Mesens (1903-1971) Roland Penrose (1900-1984) Toni del Renzio (1915-2007) Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) John Tunnard (1900-1971) Simon Watson Taylor (1923-2005) They were to merge with their French counterparts in 1947, Surrealism was born in Paris in 1922 when André Breton gathered a group of artists, poets and writers who wanted to free creativity from the restraints of reason by exploring the unconscious mind. To do this, they developed an interest in recording dreams, automatic writing (streams of unconnected words), word games and artworks which juxtaposed unusual objects. British Surrealist artists at FineArtSurrey.com are: David Souter, Mary Cumpstone and Naveena Ganjoo