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.

From the editor

INTRODUCING OUR BRITISH ART PRIZE WINNERS

Sketchbook • TIPS • ADVICE • EXHIBITIONS • NEWS • REVIEWS

THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

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

The perfect gift this Christmas

We present… JULIAN ROWE • This contemporary oil painter is known for his atmospheric landscapes and seascapes

Sarah Jones • This artist takes inspiration from the world around her and believes every sketching day has value. Meehika Barua hears how she has rediscovered her love of art

Wayne Howard-Saunders • Known as ‘The Painless Artist’, WAYNE HOWARD-SAUNDERS sees art as a form of therapy, finds Niki Browes

Sarah Thomas • This contemporary landscape artist rediscovered painting as a source of solace and strength during treatment for cancer

Oriane Pierrepoint • This realist portrait artist believes a successful portrait shouldn’t just look like the sitter, it should feel like them. She tells Sarah Edghill about her love of her work

The winners • Our major annual global art competition was a huge success, and thousands of entries were whittled down to just 75 paintings. We present the winning artists

Alex Chilvers

Steven Smith

Leah Gardner

Mark Chen

Magic and mess • A new exhibition will offer a behind-the-curtain look at the studios where some of the most celebrated works were conceived, whilst uncovering overlooked studios of lesser-known painters in all their messy glory.

Renoir and love • Renoir played a major role in the emergence of Impressionism in France and an exhibition at the National Gallery is bringing together many of his finest paintings from that period. Sarah Edghill about the artist behind the canvas

Step-by-step studio • British Art Club member SOPHIE PARKHILL is a soft pastel artist. Here she shares her tips for getting the most from her medium

Hand in hand • ALAN MCGOWAN draws his own hand and its reflection in coloured pencil

Perfection in imperfection • Illustrator ASMITA KAPADIA likes to depict ancient buildings with a history long and varied. Here, she draws St Bartholomew’s Gatehouse in Smithfield using fine liners and watercolour paints

Bathed in glory • FRANK WALTERS shows why painting in the negative, can be so positive

The art of watercolour • In an exclusive extract from her book, The Art of Watercolor Flowers For Beginners, JEANNIE DICKSON shows you how to create simple autumnal shrubbery

Painting Flowers • The essential beginner’s guide to creating gorgeous floral artworks in watercolour, acrylic, pencils and other popular mediums

The Art Index • CLUBS • WORKSHOPS • PRODUCTS • ADVICE

Brush up

Art and about • The UK is home to a brilliant bunch of artists, keen to show off what they’ve been up to. We tell you what’s happening in the next few months

Ask Bex • Got an art problem? We’ve got you covered. Read on – and write in!

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Picture this • In every issue we ask an artist to tell us about a piece of their work that means a lot to them. This...