Release date: Fall 2024
Published and distributed by Dashwood Books
Softcover,68 pages
Dimensions: 7.25 x 4.75 inches
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“As an art student in Edinburgh I took my first plane to New York from little-known Prestwick airport, I remember buying the ticket from a travel agent on Leith Walk. Landing in the USA on a dark November afternoon I was met at the gate and we took the subway all the way into Manhattan, the lights and silhouettes of buildings bringing mystery and excitement.
In daylight the sky was clear blue, the buildings brown and terracotta, the subway railings bottle green, the taxis yellow. With the accompanying sounds of streets and the voices of Americans it was like a dream to be there, freezing cold outside but I was ecstatic. My art school boyfriend, pictured in the book with cigarette, had been there for six weeks and had curated a ten-day visit that covered everything I needed to see, from the tourist highs of the Met and the Empire State to obscure parties somewhere in Brooklyn on the L train. I had a camera and the sketch book and a pencil and started drawing because I was compelled to do so.
Back in Scotland in the studio I made paintings using the drawings and photographs and plotted the next trip, which would be for three months in 1990, the start of a long-running obsession with drawing and discovering New York. I will always look back at this little sketchbook fondly 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. She immerses herself in an environment and records straight from eye to paper, which gives her drawings a particular spontaneity. Her work records the intimate details and broad views of the changing city she lives in, London, and others she is drawn to including New York and Marrakech. Alongside her own work she has had a prolific illustration career working regularly for the mainstream press and countless other publications and companies, often being sent out to draw on location.