Bianca Raffaella

Bianca Raffaella (b. 1992, London) is a British artist and accessibility advocate who works from memory and sensory cues rather than direct observation. As a partially sighted artist, her ephemeral floral and figurative works capture fleeting moments suspended in 'persistent vision' — where her sight is in constant motion and images appear as faint shadows or flickers of light. Her textural flower paintings evoke experiences of beauty in braille, which was how she first learned to read and write. She relies on touch throughout her painting process, using impasto and hand-painting techniques that border on the sculptural, blending delicate hues of blue, beige, and dusty pink using fingertips, brushstrokes, or palette knife scrapes. In 2016, she became the first registered blind student to graduate from Kingston University in Visual Arts with a First-Class Honours degree. Her work was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 2025 and 2021, and she exhibited 'Hushed Impressions' at Orleans House Gallery in 2023. After completing the Tracey Emin Artist Residency (2023/4), she was selected as Flowers Gallery's 2024 Artist of the Day, and is now represented by Flowers Gallery. She has spoken at the Goethe Institut's 'Beyond Seeing' project and participated in policy development at an All-Party Parliamentary Group for Eye Health and Visual Impairment. She won the Overall Prize and Printing Prize at the 2025 Women in Art Prize.