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

WIN DERWENT watercolour bundles • We have three bundles of paints, pens and waterbrushes up for grabs!

We present… DAVID DOUGLAS • This artist captures everyday moments with precision and movement

Sun-Kyong Clifford • This self-taught coloured pencil artist, based in South Wales, needs space and light to create her collections of wildlife and botanical paintings. She tells Sarah Edghill about the intensity of her work

Eva-Lena Nordqvist • This Swedish artist has to fit her art around her day job. She explains how her stubborn, daily art practice makes that possible

Sarah Eden • This artist captures the quiet dignity of life through poised, observational portraiture and place, Ramsha Vistro learns

Winning ways • Cornish artist, DIANE GRIFFITHS, won the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 British Art Prize. Here, she explains how it changed her life

Matty Burn ham • This artist creates unique ink and watercolour landscapes. He tells Sarah Edghill what fuels his creativity

Flesh tones • The artist JENNY SAVILLE, a painter of the female figure, has always been interested in the body as a subject. As she says: “It’s what we are.” The National Portrait Gallery is hosting a major retrospective, showing 50 of her paintings, the largest exhibition dedicated to her work in the UK. Rosalind Ormiston finds out about her career

A prince among men • A major solo exhibition at The Exchange, in Penzance, features new works by Chantal Joffe, renowned for her bold, expressive approach to figurative painting. Sarah Edghill hears how she explores her subjects

STEP-BY-STEP Studio • ELAINE GILL is a pen and watercolour artist and illustrator based in the west of Ireland. She is known for Your Story Illustrated, commissioned pieces of art showing memorable, important and special places. Here, she shares her tips on sketching buildings

Go to extremes • In the second of his series on Aldeburgh Seafront, acrylics, HASHIM AKIB shows how to punctuate your focal point by playing up the lights and playing down the darks

Seeing red • Using just two STABILO pens, PAUL WILSON shows how to create this glorious stylised tiger

A misty landscape at dawn • Alla Prima Skies and Seas is a thorough guide to this exciting technique, whereby paint is applied quickly over previous washes and layers of pigment before it dries. In this exclusive extract, MARK STOPFORTH demonstrates how the technique can be used without a brush

Capture the moment • HELENA BOASE shows you how to deal with rapidly changing conditions when painting en plein air

Looking for the light • MATTHEW HAYDN JEANES shows you how to make the most from an everyday scene

Picture this • Each month we feature a talented artist and ask them to choose one of their own paintings which reflects on their practice. In this issue, we speak to...