Rafaela de Ascanio A Club Blossomed Watercolour on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Rafaela de Ascanio is a Spanish artist living in London, and working across ceramic, painting and poetry. De Ascanio will present an installation of new work with accompanying performance at Berntson Bhattacharjee gallery this February 2022. Past exhibitions include a solo show at Liliya Art Gallery in 2021, and duo shows with Bowes Parris Gallery in 2020, Aindrea Contemporary in 2019 and at Lamb Gallery in 2018, and recent group shows with Tristan Hoare, Cob Gallery and Lychee One. Education Fine Art at Central Saint Martin's, Art History BA and MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Painting at the Turps Banana Painting School. Select Exhibitions/Awards The Young Masters 2021 Emerging Artist Award Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These watercolour sketches were made while researching the images of Norse goddess' Freyja and Frigg, flying on broomsticks and animals, found in Schleswig Cathedral. Dated around the twelfth century, they are the first images of witches riding through the sky and there is much speculation as to why these pagan idols appear in a catholic church.
Rafaela de Ascanio A Club Blossomed Watercolour on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Rafaela de Ascanio is a Spanish artist living in London, and working across ceramic, painting and poetry. De Ascanio will present an installation of new work with accompanying performance at Berntson Bhattacharjee gallery this February 2022. Past exhibitions include a solo show at Liliya Art Gallery in 2021, and duo shows with Bowes Parris Gallery in 2020, Aindrea Contemporary in 2019 and at Lamb Gallery in 2018, and recent group shows with Tristan Hoare, Cob Gallery and Lychee One. Education Fine Art at Central Saint Martin's, Art History BA and MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Painting at the Turps Banana Painting School. Select Exhibitions/Awards The Young Masters 2021 Emerging Artist Award Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These watercolour sketches were made while researching the images of Norse goddess' Freyja and Frigg, flying on broomsticks and animals, found in Schleswig Cathedral. Dated around the twelfth century, they are the first images of witches riding through the sky and there is much speculation as to why these pagan idols appear in a catholic church.
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