All the Little Words (2025)
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In All the Little Words (2025), Raw conjures a tender tableau in which a constellation of women sits within an enveloping landscape of flora. The composition radiates quiet intimacy as Raw reflects on the subtle architectures of female kinship—those unspoken understandings, whispered confidences, and shared emotional lexicons that bind women across time and experience. Through this sensuous entwinement of bodies and botany, she evokes the reparative power of language: the words that offer sanctuary, recognition, and resonance—the ones that make us feel safe, seen, and heard.
In 2022 Raw took a radical new direction with her work, shifting from traditional portraiture tropes to paint imagined, same-sex, intimate scenes of women in confected landscapes. Surrounded by flowers and trees, sometimes accompanied by fauna too, these suspended moments of blissful intense connections show naked, energised bodies part-merged with each other and the landscapes they are in.
Using a heighten palette Raw conveys the intensity of the moment, as well positioning the paintings in the realm of the imaginary. Likewise, the dream-like fluidity of some areas of mark making suggest an altered state of consciousness, a deep human connectivity occurring simultaneously on a physical and spiritual plane. Photographs taken on her daily runs through local nature areas, an activity undertaken with therapeutical escapist intention, are used as source material for her background landscapes binding their confection to meaningful actualities, pulling into the paintings the remembered feeling of oneness with nature.
Raw studied for a BA in Fine Art at Loughborough University. In 2022 Raw was selected for a space at TKE Studios in Margate. Solo exhibitions include On Earth We Weren't Meant to Stay at at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate. In 2024, Raw was invited to be artist-in-residence at the Rubell Museum, Miami.