Born in Cambridge, Lucy Raverat is the daughter of Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sophie (nĂ©e Raverat), daughter of the artists Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwen (nĂ©e Darwin). Through her maternal grandmother she is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin. 

She was interested in art through her youth, and in the 1960s she attended Hornsey College of Art, where she completed a pre-diploma course. From there she travelled, spending time in India where she met her future husband, before moving to Lancaster.  There she returned to painting, taking it up full-time after her children started attending school. In the 1990s she moved to France.

Work by Lucy Raverat