Raquel Alvarez Sardina (b. 1967, Barcelona) is a classically trained British artist known for her luminous and meticulously composed still-life paintings. Working primarily in oil, her practice focuses on simple, natural subjects - often fruit, foliage, and botanicals - observed with close attention and painted with extraordinary clarity and sensitivity.
Raquel studied at the Academia Leonardo da Vinci before completing a Fine Art degree at the Universidad de Bellas Artes in Barcelona. She further developed her drawing and painting skills at the studios of Sant Vicenç and Boter/Santalo, and in Florence at the Lorenzo de' Medici Academy. In 1991, she moved to the UK and went on to do a Master's degree in Fine Art (Painting) at Cardiff University.
In 2016, she was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and received the President and Vice Presidents' Choice Award at the Society's Annual Exhibition in London. Her work is held in numerous private collections in the UK and internationally. Raquel continues to paint with a strong personal vision, using classical techniques to explore beauty in its simplest forms. Each work offers a still, focused moment; an invitation to see more by looking slowly.