I am a figurative painter drawn to the tender, raw spaces within the human experience — where vulnerability meets truth, and where all emotions are honoured as sacred.
Through color, movement, and form, I explore the full landscape of feeling: the loneliness, the tenderness, the joy, the fear, the beauty of simply existing.
But at the heart of my work is a deeper purpose: to create spaces where people feel seen, accepted, and less alone. To offer a mirror where vulnerability is not weakness but an opening; where all parts of ourselves — even the messy, painful ones — are welcome.
Through my art, I invite viewers to come home to themselves.
To embrace the fullness of their humanity.
To connect to the radical beauty of existence.
And to remember that in being vulnerable, we are never truly alone.
Each piece begins intuitively, allowing color and gesture to lead before faces and figures emerge. Portraits often dissolve into their surroundings, blurring the boundary between self and world — symbolizing connection, dissolution, and the expansive nature of being.
Selected exhibitions
Raquel Blazquez, solo show
Cassart Bristol (Feb - March 2025)
'Divinart', group show
L'Etoile Studio Art Gallery, Bristol (March 2025)
North Street Gallery, group show
Bristol (Feb - April 2025)
Open Studio
Willway Yard, Bristol (December 2024)
Drawing Down the Moon, group show
54 The Gallery, London (October 2024)
'Persephone', group show
The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford (August 2024)
'Burning Sisterhood', solo show
The Island, Bristol (July 2024)
Bath Art Fair
Bath Pavilion, Bath (Feb 2024)
'Precious Postcards', group show
That Art Gallery, Bristol (Dec 2023)
Circular ArtSpace, group show
Circular ArtSpace, Bristol (Dec 2023)
'Raquel Blazquez', solo show
Tobacco Factory, Bristol (Oct - Nov 2023)
'Flow', group show
El Malago, Bristol (April - June 2023)
'Stories from the past', solo show
No.1 Harbourside, Bristol (Dec 2022 - Jan 2023)
New Artist Art Fair
The Truman Brewery, London (Sept 2022)
'Transitions', group show
Bocabar, Bristol (March 2022)