{{Short description|British painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Lucy Raverat | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1948}} | birth_place = | education = | occupation = painter | spouse = {{marriage|Francis Rawlinson|1968}} | children = 4 | relatives = | family = | website = }}
'''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.<ref name="Bowmoore">{{cite web | title = Artist Gallery | work = The Bowmoore Gallery | url = http://www.bowmooregallery.com/artist_lucy_raverat.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324190141/http://www.bowmooregallery.com/artist_lucy_raverat.htm |archive-date=24 March 2012}}</ref> Through her maternal grandmother, Lucy Raverat is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin.<ref name="Bowmoore" /> 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.<ref name="autobio">{{cite web | last = Raverat | first = Lucy | date = March 2009 | title = Artist Statement | work = Lucy Raverat | url = http://www.lucyraverat.com/page4/page4.html | access-date = 26 May 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111017170358/http://www.lucyraverat.com/page4/page4.html | archive-date = 17 October 2011 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="Taylor">{{cite news | last = Taylor | first = John Russell | date = 19 July 2003 | title = JRT's best London shows - London | work = The Times | page = Play 25 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="autobio" /> In the 1990s she moved to France, where she currently resides.<ref name="Bowmoore" /><ref name="Taylor" />
Raverat often employs elements from her own life in her work, although they can be presented as "magically touched by fantasy",<ref name="Taylor" /> 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".<ref name="Gregory">{{cite news | last = Gregory | first = Conal | date = 9 April 2003 | title = An exhibition not built in a day - The Register | work = The Times | page = 33 }}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://www.lucyraverat.com Official website] * [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5223632 "Williamson park at dusk"], ''Christie's''
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