I am a figurative painter, and my work begins with something personal.
Each piece comes from a lived moment. Often, from times when I was trying to understand myself more deeply. Painting has been a way of processing, of sitting with emotions I didn’t always have words for, and slowly making sense of them.
My earlier work grew out of a period of confronting and healing from past experiences. It was a time of questioning, forgiving, and learning to accept myself more fully. Later, my focus shifted as I began to explore connection, particularly my relationship with other women. What started as anxiety slowly transformed into a sense of belonging, shaped by the friendships and sisterhood I found.
My current work, Becoming, is rooted in change and creation. Created at the beginning of my pregnancy, it reflects on transformation, letting go, and the power of women as sources of life and creation.
Throughout all of my work, I return to the same intention: to give form to emotional experiences that are often difficult to express, and to create something others can recognise themselves in.
If someone feels a little less alone when they stand in front of my work, then it has done what it needed to do.
Selected exhibitions
North Street Gallery, group show
Bristol (May - July 2026)
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)
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)
'Stories from the Past', 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)