Building on Dulwich Picture Gallery’s current exhibition ‘Drawing Attention’ is a series of talks ‘Drawn From Life’ – given by well-known illustrators. Opening this In Sight series on the 11th November is the London based illustrator Lucinda Rogers.
Borough Market by Lucinda Rogers
During her career Lucinda has produced illustrations for an array of clients including the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Times, Habitat, and the V&A; as well as her long-running series of illustrations for the Independent’s column ‘The Weasel‘.
Her work has us looking at cities in new ways, capturing intimate scenes of people and architecture. Each illustration beams Lucinda’s eye catching style created with a mixture of pen and ink and watercolour.
Lucinda’s work focuses heavily on the idea of ‘Reportage’ – illustrations intended to give an account of observed or documented events. In her talk she will be exploring this idea through her illustrations of London and New York.
Dulwich OnView put a few questions to Lucinda….
Illustration by Lucinda Rogers
DOV: What is the concept behind your illustrations?
LR: I take inspiration from what I see around me and wish to record and reveal aspects of life particularly in cities, and places that might be hidden from view or disappearing. The drawings are in pen and ink with some colour, and done entirely on site, not in a studio.
DOV: What is your background and how did you start producing your style of illustration?
LR: I went through art school at St Martin’s (first degree) and Edinburgh College of Art (postgraduate) where I studied illustration for 4 years in total. I began doing freelance illustration work as soon as I left college and after a time started to do ‘reportage’ illustration: being sent to places to draw, for newspapers and commercial clients. Outside commercial illustration work I started drawing scenes of New York which continued over a long period of time.
DOV: Do you have a favourite piece in your collection?
LR: A favourite piece is a view of Spitalfields in East London showing a small hidden house and a dairy between the backs of two streets, with a view over the roofs towards the City and a skyline that is now no longer the same.
DOV: What are you working on now?
LR: I am about to start work on new drawings of London together with a series of portraits.
Where: Linbury Room, Dulwich Picture Gallery, SE21 7AD
When: 10.30 – 11.30am, Wednesday 11 November
Tickets: Series £25, Friends £20. Single lectures £10, Friends £8.
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