Lucy Raverat (née Pryor, born 1948) is the professional name used by Lucy Ethne Rawlinson, a British painter.
Born in Cambridge, Lucy Raverat is the daughter of Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sophie (née Raverat), daughter of the artists Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwen (née Darwin). Through her maternal grandmother she is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Her elder brother is William Pryor, a writer and entrepreneur. In 1968 she married Francis Rawlinson.
She 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.
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".
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, LondonFrancis 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,LondonMiami Art Fair (with Francis Kyle Gallery, London)Roma (mixed show), Francis Kyle Gallery, LondonFrancis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show)Artbank Gallery, LondonArt '99, London, with England & CoWaterman Fine Art, LondonMaison 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, FrancePeter Scott Gallery, Lancaster UniversityBroughton House Gallery, Cambridge (solo show)Yorkshire Television Building, Leeds (solo show)Boundary Gallery, LondonRoy Miles Gallery, LondonThe Art Company, Leeds (part of the Leeds Festival)Art '89, LondonThe Art Company, LeedsBowmoore Gallery, London (part of Women in Art exhibition, 10 paintings)Grabowski Gallery, London (solo show)Boundary Gallery, LondonBeaux Arts, Bath (solo show)RONA exhibition touring southwest FranceBarbican Centre, London (RONA exhibition, 10 paintings)Richard de Marco Gallery, EdinburghBarbican Centre, London (RONA exhibition)Royal Festival Hall (RONA exhibition)Portal Gallery, Bond StreetCrane Arts, ChelseaCity Museum, Lancaster (solo show)Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster (solo show)
