The Wick have been looking forward to this one, since Bianca Raffaella featured as
Spotlight in November 2024. The Margate-based artist’s debut solo exhibition at Flowers Gallery, Faint Memories, marks an exciting moment for the young artist and features all new paintings.
A recent graduate of the Tracey Emin Artist Residency (TEAR), Bianca Raffaella creates evocative works. As a partially sighted artist, her ephemeral paintings draw viewers into her world by way of memory and sensory cues, capturing fleeting moments and images that appear only briefly as faint flickers or flashes of light.
This new collection of textured, tactile flower paintings relate to the artist’s experience of beauty in braille. Painted using touch as a guide, never losing contact with her canvas, there is a unique kind of expressionism in Raffaella’s sensual, fluid works, the result of a mix of tools worked over the surface. As Raffaella’s Champion for the Wick, Flowers’ director Matthew Flowers, put it “her ability to distill and communicate fleeting impressions into beautiful, ethereal, textural compositions is remarkable”.
