New York Winter 1988 by Lucinda Rogers is part of an ongoing series of books on drawing and photography published by Dashwood in the form of paperback novellas. It reproduces page-by-page the sketchbook of her first inspiring trip to New York in 1988. “I took my first plane to the USA as an art student in Edinburgh, landing in New York on a dark November evening. Everything looked familiar, yet this was a foreign country. The sky was bright blue above the brownstones, the taxis were yellow, it was freezing and I was ecstatic. I was compelled to start drawing: it was the start of a long-running obsession with drawing New York from life and I’ll always look back fondly at this little sketchbook as a kind of blueprint for the work I went on to do.” LR Rogers works from life in the tradition of the artist as reporter, with a focus on cities including London, where she lives. She immerses herself in a place and records straight from eye to paper, which gives her drawings a particular spontaneity. Her book of New York drawings was published in 2019. Alongside her own work she has had a prolific illustration career working for press and publishing clients, including currently The New York Times and the Financial Times, often being sent out to draw on location.
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