Lucy Raverat (née Pryor; born 1948) is the professional name used by Lucy Ethne Rawlinson, a British painter.
Life
Born in Cambridge, Lucy Raverat is the daughter of
Mark Pryor and
Sophie Gurney (née Raverat), and granddaughter of the artists
Gwen Raverat (née Darwin) and
Jacques Raverat
Jacques Pierre Paul Raverat (pronounced Rav-er-ah) (20 March 1885– 6 March 1925) was a French painter; Raverat was the son of Georges Pierre Raverat and Helena Lorena Raverat, née Caron; he was born in Paris, France, in 1885.
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Through her maternal grandmother, Lucy Raverat is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist
Charles Darwin.
In 1968 she married Francis Rawlinson and went on to have 4 children and 7 grandchildren.
Raverat was interested in art through her youth, and in the 1960s she attended
Hornsey College of Art, where she completed a pre-diploma course.
From there she travelled, 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 1990s she moved to France, where she currently resides.
Raverat 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".
References
External links
Official website"Williamson park at dusk" ''Christie's''
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1948 births
Living people
20th-century British painters
21st-century British painters
20th-century British women artists
21st-century British women artists
Artists from Cambridge
People from Lancaster, Lancashire