Lucinda Rogers is driven by a desire to document and it is her surroundings that feed this compulsion to draw from life. She has amassed a large body of drawings made on location in London and New York and her sketchbooks are more reminiscent of address books, lists of locations seen in passing that will become the subject of the next artwork.

To Lucinda the city becomes a landscape, it’s inhabitants providing a sense of scale and animation. By drawing on location she has a rare opportunity to observe this relationship. The passion with which Lucinda approaches her drawing has been motivated by the increased pace of urban development and the urgency of capturing something before it is gone. Many buildings that Lucinda has drawn now only exist in her portfolio.

Understanding that Lucinda works best on location has led clients to approach her with a variety of unique briefs, often giving her privileged access to places that are not generally seen by the public. Lucinda produced artwork for the Association of British Ports, donning hard hat and fluro jacket to draw on location at two ports in Hull. Recently she was granted access to private areas of Kensingston Palace in order to provide visualisations of what an extended exhibition of Queen Victoria’s life at the Palace might entail. Her commissions have taken her backstage at the Globe Theatre, to a basketweaver’s workshop in South East London and regularly into the streets of the East End. A monthly column ‘Country in the City’ for Country Living magazine has given her further opportunity to discover the unexpected in her local London area.

The people that occupy these locations are often intrigued by Lucinda’s presence. A drawing captures and documents their work or existence in a new and unforeseen way. For this reason, Lucinda’s drawings have provided unique design solutions from large-scale to small-scale subject matter.

Clients

Association of British Ports
Historic Royal Palaces
Cambridge University
Dunhill
The London Library
The Guardian
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Brockton Capital
Artisan Biscuits
The Globe Theatre
Inveresk Paper
The New Yorker
Fila
Los Angeles Times
Habitat
Country Living
William & Sons
Case de Arbitare
Orion
World Business
The Telegraph
Brockton Capital
Claridges Hotel
The National Academy Museum & School, New York

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