Drawn TO THE CITY
It turned out it was a doubly strange and poignant day to be talking to the acclaimed illustrator Lucinda Rogers about her latest project. For starters, when we arranged to meet in a canal-side café around the corner from her East London studio to discuss her new crowd-funded book of drawings of New York, neither of us had clocked the fact that we were doing so on a date that will forever be etched into that city’s history: September 11th.
Not only that but Lucinda has barely settled down with her coffee when she also discovers that one of her key early inspirations for the project has just died. The Wiltshire-born illustrator made her first trip to New York in 1988, intoxicated before she arrived like thousands of others on a cocktail of imagery drawn from art, film, television and photography. “I think it is quite romantic,” she says. “It’s an extraordinary thing
