- City
- Toronto
- Booth
- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 92
Raquel Aurini
My work centers on attention—how what we notice shapes our experience of the world around us. Drawing from places I have observed, remembered, and encountered through travel and everyday life, I create oil paintings that explore atmosphere, presence, and the experience of place.
I am interested in moments where noticing seems to slow time: the glow of artificial light, colour shifting across a room, or the sense that a place still holds traces of the people who passed through it. Rather than aiming for strict realism, I intensify colour and light to reflect the emotional memory of a place and how it felt to be there.
I hope the paintings evoke recognition, reminding viewers of places, feelings, or moments from their own lives.
I am a Toronto-based artist working primarily in oil paint. I hold a BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and a Diploma in Digital Media Arts from Seneca College. My work has been exhibited in galleries and outdoor art fairs and is collected nationally and internationally.
