Bianca Raffaella

Exploring themes of memory, perception, and fragility, Bianca Raffaella employs gestural fragments and impasto marks to translate motion and visual disturbances onto the canvas. Her ongoing series of textural flower paintings evoke the artist’s experience of beauty in braille, which was how she first learned to read and write. As a partially sighted artist, Raffaella relies on touch in her painting process. Never losing contact with the canvas, she blends delicate hues of blue, beige, and baby pink until they become an ethereal impression, cloudy details made with fingertips or scrapes of a pallet knife. It was this particular quality that caught the attention of Tracey Emin when Raffaella applied for a place at Emin’s artist residency, TEAR.