Artist: Bianca Raffaella

Flowers Gallery announces representation of Margate-based artist Bianca Raffaella and the upcoming debut of her first major solo exhibition, Faint Memories.

A recent graduate of the Tracey Emin Artist Residency (TEAR), Bianca Raffaella creates evocative paintings, working from memory and sensory cues rather than direct observation. As a partially sighted artist, her ephemeral, floral and figurative paintings draw viewers into her world by capturing fleeting moments suspended in "persistent vision," where her sight is in constant motion, and images appear only briefly as faint shadows or flickers of light.

Faint Memories features a collection of textural flower paintings that evoke the artist's experience of beauty in braille, which was how she first learned to read and write. Raffaella relies on touch in her painting process. Never losing contact with the canvas, she blends delicate hues of blue, beige, and dusty pink until they become an ethereal impression, cloudy details made with fingertips, brushstrokes or scrapes of a palette knife.

Raffaella's method is an intensive and spontaneous practice. She navigates the canvas with quick, expressive movements, capturing impressions of flowers and human figures as she explores themes of memory, perception, and fragility. As each painting unfolds, the viewer is invited to slow down, look closer, and engage with details that might otherwise go unnoticed.

While deeply personal and complex, Raffaella hopes the exhibition sheds light on her experiences as a visually impaired artist and aims to make her work accessible and relatable to all viewers.