Lucinda Rogers

Leatherworkers at Hyfact Ltd, Links Yard

As Not Seen

Paul Gardner at Gardner's

I have recently discovered the work of Lucinda Rogers after it was suggested that I looked at her work during the feedback on my summer project by second year students. I immediately fell in love with her line drawings and connected with what she is trying to achieve through her drastic variation in weight of line; her technique really draws your attention to specific parts of the picture and leads your eye into the image step by step. I like the way she uses colour washes to draw over and shows bright areas by using white against a coloured background. I think the beauty of her drawings is down to the selective process of choosing which parts of the image need a heavier line and which parts need to be accentuated with colour. Her drawings have a sense of spontaneity and immediacy which reflects her way of working as she positions herself within an environment and records her surroundings from life. 

View over Spitalfields looking west

I particularly like this image because the larger and brighter colour washes in the foreground and mid ground catch your eye at first and then you are drawn to the smaller patches of colour in the distance. After a while of looking at this picture, I also noticed she has used faint coloured lines as well, for example on some of the windows. The more I look at this image, the more I see in it. There is something about the viewpoint of this image over the rooftops that is intriguing and makes you want to inspect the interesting angles and spaces within the drawing because we don't usually see buildings from this angle.