From the late 1930s onwards, Adnams forged a reputation as a painter of deeply distinctive and dream-like visions inspired by Surrealism. While her work was initially influenced by her drawing tutor in Derby, the Surrealist painter Alfred Bladen, as well as the paintings of René Magritte, Paul Nash and Salvador Dalí, Adnams soon developed her own Surrealist style, becoming known for her meticulous painting technique and fine draftsmanship. In L'infante égarée, Marion Adnams depicts a faceless woman in a full-length paper gown with ruff. This study closely relates to the final composition where Adnams places the figure in a desolate night landscape with a deep blue sky, surrounded by thick gnarled tree trunks, and a white moon high in the sky.