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

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We present • JOAN CRAWFORD This abstract artist redefines nature with insight and thoughtful expression

Taylor Tynes • Focused on tradition and technique, this artist brings memories to life through vibrant oil paintings, finds Sara Mumtaz

Raman Uppal • Blending art and engineering, this artist shares his path from lockdown commissions to a full-time creative practice

Susannah Bleasby • This Canadian artist turns abstraction into a celebration of nature, with some unpredictability, says Ramsha Vistro

Sarah Fosse • Working from her central London studio, this artist portrays the stunning vistas of major international cities using rich, vibrant colours, energy and atmosphere. You can’t fail to be uplifted, says Niki Browes

Hiroshige • UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the ultimate great master of the wood-block print tradition. An exciting new exhibition at the British Museum displays his work, as Amanda Hodges finds out

Astonishing things The drawings of Victor Hugo • The author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame was also a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime. Amanda Hodges looks into a new exhibition at the Royal Academy

STEP-BY-STEP studio • LAURA JONES, British Art Club member and former finalist of The British Art Club, has been working professionally as an illustrator and designer for the last 20 years. Here, she shares her tips on coloured pencil drawing

Mastering edges in watercolour • In his fourth and final instalment on working with watercolour, the master of the craft ALVARO CASTAGNET, talks about the importance of edges

Horsing around • KASHA LUNT is inspired by nature and the animals, especially horses. Here, she draws this majestic creature in coloured pencil

Say chic! • JESSIE KANELOS WEINER is an American artist and illustrator, now based in Paris. Here, she paints a Haussmannian building, the classic architecture that has defined modern-day Paris, in watercolour

The signs of summer • Professional artist and tutor CAROLINE STRONG shows you how she paints and draws her favourite subjects, a butterfly on a wildflower, in watercolour and coloured pencil

Exploring gouache • DAVID BELLAMY is a renowned artist and author who is best known for his watercolour work. In this exclusive extract from his new book, he explains how he has been experimenting with gouache

You tell us

Picture this • Every month, we ask an artist to tell us about a painting that is special to them. This month, we speak to self-taught artist RACHEL DOWD