Painting, Mixed-Media & Reportage Drawing

Veronica Lawlor is one of three artists in the current major exhibit COLLECTED LIGHT: An Exploration, which runs through June, 2025. Veronica Lawlor's work sits at the intersection of illustration and abstraction. For over 20 years, her reportage drawings have led her around the world, creating award-winning illustrations for numerous clients. Her expressionistic on-site work considers the sensation of place through formal aesthetic concerns.

Lawlor brings those same sensibilities into the studio, creating work that is reflective of the energy and atmosphere of the locations she has documented, creating memory of place. (Works from her 2024 solo exhibit, based on documenting/reacting to defunct industrial sites, can be viewed in the images section below.)

A native New Yorker and urban enthusiast, Veronica is on the faculty of Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and The Woodstock School of Art. She conducts reportage workshops worldwide. Her work has been exhibited by the United Nations, the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Society of Illustrators, Art Gotham, Emerge Gallery, Albert Shahinian Fine Art and 601 Artspace, among others. She is in numerous private and corporate collections, and in 2022 was commissioned to create a mural for SOHO House NY. In 2011 Lawlor was selected as the North American representative for the Canson Prix, and her work was presented at the Louvre. 

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Please click on an image below to display a larger version above. Paintings shown in the first section are in the current exhibit. All work shown is available for purchase (unless marked Sold). Priced $350 to $3,500.

Paintings shown below are from Lawlor's defunct industrial site series. Work shown is available for purchase (unless marked Sold). Priced $250 to $2,000.

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 company's 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".