Artists & Illustrators

Artists & Illustrators is the UK’s best-selling magazine for artists and art lovers, providing advice and inspiration every month. Published for almost 25 years, each issue of Artists & Illustrators contains a colourful palette of profiles and features, together with valuable practical ideas, expert technical advice and useful product tests. Whether you favour oils or watercolours, portraits or landscapes, abstract art or botanical illustration, Artists & Illustrators brings a refreshing blend of creativity and advice every four weeks throughout the year.

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Artists & Illustrators

Sketchbook • TIPS • ADVICE • EXHIBITIONS • NEWS • REVIEWS

THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

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Exhibitions • THE BEST ART SHOWS TO VISIT FROM THIS MONTH ONWARDS

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We present… • RAFAEL MAMEDOV This artist turns bold colour, music and instinct into electric abstract pieces

Sarah Jane Brown • This artist transforms years at sea into expressive landscapes that capture nature’s moods and emotions. Ramsha Vistro dives deeper

HOW I MAKE IT WORK Jeff Legg • This artist’s career is built on relentless practice, Old Master influences and a fierce love for capturing light and mood

Lucia Leyfield • A diarist of the overlooked, this artist draws what the rest of us forget to see, says Ramsha Vistro

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Thomas W Schaller • This month’s cover artist is an award-winning watercolourist, architect and author based in New York City. As a child, he used his paints to express himself. It led to his path as a fine artist, says Sarah Edghill

Theatre Picasso • With his painting The Three Dancers, a new exhibition at the Tate Modern celebrates PABLO PICASSO’s Cubism period – and his fascination with performance, says Amanda Hodges

THE BRITISH ART PRIZE 2025 • This is your final chance to enter The British Art Prize 2025! Submit your work by 5pm on 19 September 2025 for the opportunity to win our biggest prizes yet, have your art exhibited at two major London galleries, and be featured in Artists & Illustrators

Urban glow • JULIE SWINSCO is a fine artist and image-maker who likes to capture movement and energy in her mixed media work. Here, she tells us why the city of Birmingham holds a deep fascination

STEP-BY-STEP studio • EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PAINT AND CREATE

Blurred lines • You don’t always need a drawn outline to create a piece of art, says HASHIM AKIB. Here, in the fourth of a six-part series, he demonstrates his theory with two stories

Thick skin • In his second instalment, HASHIM shows you how to paint a rhino, no line required

The butterfly effect • Argentinian artist SOFIA BONATI creates mystical women in mixed media. Here, she shows you how she created one of her butterfly girls

Mini art •  DIANNE BRANSCOMBE RMS paints portraits, landscapes and still life in a variety of mediums but keeps going back to painting miniature art. Here, she demonstrates her approach to a tiny still life in oil

Reflections • Artist and actor MAX PANKS has been working exclusively with watercolour for the past several years. Here, he shows you how he created a scene from Camden Lock

Happy as a pig in… • YELENA LAMM is a past cover star of Artists & Illustrators. Here she shows you how she painted this delightful sow in oil

Picture this • In every issue, we ask an artist about an artwork that’s special to them. This month, MICHAEL BRACE tells us about his painting of a delicious...