The series spans an intimate to substantial scale, with works ranging from 17 cm in width through to a largest piece at 81 cm, allowing the city to be experienced from jewel-like vignettes to expansive skyline studies. The palette moves from bright, celebratory colour to brooding dusk tones.

Palette and mood - Across the group, Traill’s handling of light is central, with high-key chroma used to articulate the reflective, glassy surfaces of New York by day, and richer, more saturated passages marking the onset of night. This range creates a cohesive narrative of the city’s rhythms, inviting viewers to move between joyous, sunlit façades and more contemplative pauses.

‘Memory in Monochrome’ - At the Agency’s request, Traill has created a new pen and charcoal skyline study, ‘Memory in Monochrome’, which offers a distilled reading of New York without the distraction of colour. This work consciously echoes an earlier monochrome London work from Traill’s studio, a drawing that has long been a touchstone for us and which prompted an ongoing desire to revisit her cityscapes in black and white.