 Bate Tichenor counted painters Carrington, Alan Glass, Zachary Selig and artist Pedro Friedeberg among her closest friends and artistic contemporaries in Mexico.Between 1982 and 1984, Bate Tichenor lived in Rome and painted a series of paintings titled "Masks, Spiritual Guides, and Dual Deities".Her final years were spent at her home in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.