Raffaella paints using touch and memory.   

Her paintings often reveal themselves slowly, forms emerge as the sighted viewer actively search for shapes mirroring Raffaella’s own continuous hunt for form in her impaired vision.   This is also true for her ethereal palate; dusty pinks, pale greys powdery blues and olive greens replicate how Raffaella witnesses the world.  The female figure appears continuously in her work with a pressing need to understand the body and the traumas that can be placed upon it through a desire to establish control over it.  The fragmentation of gestural marks are part of her healing process, she draws you in to her world, a world in which painting allows her the greatest comfort.