[1] Through her maternal grandmother, Lucy Raverat is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
[1] In 1968 she married Francis Rawlinson and went on to have 4 children and 7 grandchildren.
[2][3] 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.
[1][3] Raverat often employs elements from her own life in her work, although they can be presented as "magically touched by fantasy",[3] and she has incorporated representations of herself through the series painted for the Francis Kyle Gallery's Roma exhibition, "present in each composition as a tiny, wraith-like figure in a polka-dot dress".