Lucy Raverat is the professional name used by Lucy Rawlinson (nee Pryor, born 1948), a British painter.

Life

Born in Cambridge, Lucy Raverat is the daughter of Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

, and Sophie (née Raverat), daughter of the artists Jacques Raverat

Jacques Raverat

Jacques Pierre Raverat was a French painter.He married the English painter Gwen Darwin, in 1911, the daughter of George Darwin and granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They had two daughters, Elisabeth , who married the Norwegian politician Edvard Hambro and Sophie who married the Cambridge scholar...

 and his wife Gwen (née Darwin)

Gwen Raverat

Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat née Darwin was a celebrated English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers in England.- Biography :...

. Through her maternal grandmother she is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

. Her elder brother is William Pryor

William Pryor (writer)

William Marlborough Pryor is a British writer.Pryor was born in Farnborough in 1945, to Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sophie , daughter of Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwen...

, a writer and entrepreneur. In 1968 she married Francis Rawlinson.

She was interested in art through her youth, and in the 1960's she attended Hornsey College of Art

Hornsey College of Art

Hornsey College of Art is a former college centred in Crouch End, London, England. Since 2008, the building has been a part of Coleridge Primary School, upon its expansion to four form entry...

, where she completed a pre-diploma course. From there she traveled, spending time in India where she met her future husband, before moving to Lancaster. There she returned to painting, taking it up full time after her children started attending school. In the 1990's she moved to France, where she currently resides.

She often employs elements from her own life in her work, although they can be presented as "magically touched by fantasy", and she has incorporated representations of herself through the series painted for the Francis Kyle Gallery's Roma exhibition, "present in each composition as a tiny, wraith-like figure in a polka-dot dress".

Exhibitions

• Francis Kyle Gallery, London, (solo show)
• Francis Kyle Gallery, London, Russia (mixed show)
• Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show)
• Everyone Sang [mixed show], Francis Kyle Gallery, London
• Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show in September)
• Casa Guayasamin, Havana (solo show - part of the Biennale)
• The Lair of the Leopard (mixed show), Francis Kyle Gallery,London
• Miami Art Fair (with Francis Kyle Gallery, London)
• Roma (mixed show), Francis Kyle Gallery, London
• Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show)
• Artbank Gallery, London
• Art ’99, London, with England & Co
• Waterman Fine Art, London
• Maison des Arts, Bédarieux, Hérault, France (solo show)
• Bartley Drey Gallery. London (solo show)
• Maison des Arts, Bages, Aude, France (solo show)
• The Gallery at Lots Road, Chelsea (solo show)
• Stephen Bartley Gallery, Chelsea (solo show)
• Galerie l’Etang d’Art, Bages, Aude, France
• Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
• Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge (solo show)
• Yorkshire Television Building, Leeds (solo show)
• Boundary Gallery, London
• Roy Miles Gallery, London
• The Art Company, Leeds (part of the Leeds Festival)
• Art ’89, London
• The Art Company, Leeds
• Bowmoore Gallery, London (part of Women in Art exhibition, 10 paintings)
• Grabowski Gallery, London (solo show)
• Boundary Gallery, London
• Beaux Arts, Bath (solo show)
• RONA exhibition touring southwest France
• Barbican Centre, London (RONA exhibition, 10 paintings)
• Richard de Marco Gallery, Edinburgh
• Barbican Centre, London (RONA exhibition)
• Royal Festival Hall (RONA exhibition)
• Portal Gallery, Bond Street
• Crane Arts, Chelsea
• City Museum, Lancaster (solo show)
• Duke’s Playhouse, Lancaster (solo show)

External links

• Official websites
• "Williamson park at dusk", Christie's