Lucinda Rogers

Lucinda Rogers works directly from life using ink, crayon and watercolour on paper. Her work mainly explores drawing different cities including, New York and London where there is a vibrancy of life which her drawings capture perfectly. However, for this project I have been most inspired by her still life drawings where she makes the mundane interesting with unusual compositions and a thick black line which she places instinctively.  

I have loved studying the way Lucinda Rogers composes and illustrates her still life pieces, as I think the technical skill and detail that she produces in these pieces have a direct correlation with that of her urban sketches. I felt that I learnt a lot from copying her study of the condiments with the lemons stacked on top, as I was in awe of how brilliantly recognisable all the items were and how, even down to the fonts used, she had captured them perfectly. I took a lot of inspiration from this particular piece when taking condiments and food from my own kitchen to compose a similarly, visually intriguing composition. I feel that I have been successful in creating a convincing still life that has obviously been inspired by Lucinda Rogers. I was very concerned with capturing the fonts of my chosen foods correctly, as I felt that was a big part of what made Lucinda Rogers work so accurate and playing with the thicker line placement informed my practice and helped the piece to appear more three dimensional.