VERONICA LAWLOR‘s romantically inclined reportage drawings have led her around the world, including a reportage of Italy and portrait of Pope John Paul II. On this side of the Atlantic she has travelled across the United States drawing icons of America for Brooks Brothers 185th anniversary campaign, and has completed reportage assignments for numerous clients including 3M Corporation and the Hyatt hotel chain. In 2002 she documented VaxGen’s quest to create an AIDS vaccine for the companies annual report. The only artist to draw, on the spot, the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, her work is featured in the Newseum, the Washington DC museum of journalism; the drawings were also exhibited at Montserrat College and the New York City Fire Museum. The full series is published in a book titled, September 11, 2001: Words and Pictures.

Ms. Lawlor’s work has appeared in numerous publications and her picture book, I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories of the Ellis Island Oral History Project (Viking) was honored by the National Council for Social Studies, and exhibited in Washington DC. She has also shown her work at Emerge Gallery, 601 Artspace, the Society of Illustrators, the Rx Club, American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators of LA and the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, among others. Her drawings and silk paintings on issues of world hunger were exhibited at the United Nations World Food Summit in Rome, and in 2011 she was selected as the North American representative to the Canson Prix, and her work was presented at the Louvre.

Veronica Lawlor is currently on the faculty of Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design, and conducts private reportage workshops worldwide. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design (BFA) and the New School (MA). Veronica studied with the late David J. Passalacqua, and is the co-founder of the Dalvero Academy. She is a correspondent on the international location drawing blog, Urban Sketchers, and the author of several books on drawing and illustration: One Drawing A Day, One Watercolor A Day, and the Urban Sketcher’s Handbook to Reportage and Documentary Illustration. 

To purchase any of Veronica Lawlor’s drawings, paintings or prints, please visit Veronica Lawlor Gallery or you may email her at: veronica[at]studio1482.com.

STUDIO 1482 consists of four members with one common goal – to communicate visually in new, unique and exciting ways. Each member of the studio works both as an individual and in concert with the other six. The studio is based on reportage – drawing and illustrating on site. This kind of engagement creates unusual visual solutions that are graphically appropriate for the problem at hand.To view Veronica Lawlor’s portfolio and the other 1482 artists, please visit the site at www.studio1482.com.

*Note: all artworks presented on this blog are the copyright of Veronica Lawlor. Please do not download or use any works without the permission of the artist. Thank you.