24 Artists & Illustrators
not in an overload of detail, but rather through a choice
series of purposeful, dynamic marks. Like JMW Turner
strapping himself to the ship’s mast to capture the sublime
light of a thunderstorm, so Lucinda settles in the eye of
the midtown traffic and somehow conjures a mindful
impression of her time in the city.
Over the years, the St Martin’s School of Art graduate
has illustrated everything from Habitat catalogues and
V&A reports to cookery books and regular columns in
publications such as The Independent and Country Living.Though she has coincided commissions with personal
trips to New York, she is reluctant to admit that her
drawings of the city were done for pleasure. “I think the
word ‘pleasure’ is a slightly funny one, for my own practice
at least,” she explains. “I wouldn’t really call it ‘pleasure’,
it was just a need to create something. But essentially yes,
they weren’t for a commission and I’ve always thought that
that makes a very big difference. Even when you get a
really good art director who says go off and do what you
want to do, you’re still conscious of that person or what itRIGHT Grand
Central and the
Chrysler Building,
ink, crayon and
gouache on
paper, 62x47cm
OPPOSITE PAGE,
FROM TOP
55th Street Deli,
ink, crayon and
gouache on paper,
50x62cm;
Chess Players
in Washington
Square Park, ink
and crayon on
paper, 40x50cm