Lucinda Rogers
Lucinda Rogers is an English illustrator and artist.[1][2] [3]
She is best known as an illustrator of newspaper columns, including Jonathan Meades' "A Sense of Place" in The Times, and the "Weasel" column written by Christopher Hirst, Alexander Chancellor and several others in The Independent from 1993 to 2008[4] and also a column in The Daily Telegraph by Andrew Lloyd Webber, A Matter of Taste, from 1996 to 2000.
Books illustrated by Rogers include The Dictionary of Urbanism, Spitalfields Life and The Unexpected Professor by John Carey. She designed the covers of six novels by Angus Wilson published in paperback by Penguin Books, and contributed one hundred drawings to a cookbook by Rowley Leigh called No Place Like Home.[5] Rogers also drew the cover and illustrations for a new translation of Histories Naturelles by Jules Renard published by Alma Books in 2010 (the first edition of 1896 had illustrations by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec). Her work for The Guardian includes main features in the Review section.[6]
Rogers is also known for her drawings of cities, particularly London and New York, and as a "reportage" artist, drawing directly from life. She was given special access to draw a group of 33 ink on paper works, and one work in colour, at the Ground Zero site at the World Trade Centre in the winter of 2001-2.[7][8]
A series of Lucinda Rogers drawings made in Tottenham in 2015 entitled Employment Land Portfolio was exhibited during the London Festival of Architecture that year.[9] On a similar theme, she drew scenes of the specialist printers Baddeley Brothers (see Baddeley baronets) for their book.[10]
She was a judge at the University of the West of England (Bristol) 'Reportager Awards' in 2015, celebrating achievements in documentary drawing.[11] In 2016 she exhibited her drawings of Workspaces Rook Lane Chapel in Frome, Somerset.[12] [13]
Lucinda Rogers' work is represented in many permanent collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum,[14] Her drawings of New York and London have been exhibited at the Oxo Tower on London's South Bank.[15]
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