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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INTRODUCING

Artists & Illustrators

Sketchbook • TIPS • ADVICE • EXHIBITIONS • NEWS • REVIEWS

THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

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Money talks • Explore art and money’s intriguing interplay at The Ashmolean, Oxford.

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

WIN! £1000 towards an art getaway • Dive into an inspiring art escape, courtesy of professional artist MARILYN ALLIS

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Ondre Pettingill • Oil artist, ONDRE PETTINGILL is at his most creative in an orderly studio. He tells Sarah Edghill how he approaches his work

Sarah Sedwick • This artist found success by embracing local opportunities, building an online presence and continually learning

Petra Richards • PETRA RICHARDS is the winner of this year’s Artists & Illustrators Award at the Chelsea Art Society’s Annual Exhibition. She tells Sarah Edghill about her art journey

Charlie Pickard • This artist’s work explores the dynamic interplay of light and colour in modern figurative art. Ramsha Vistro learns more

The British ART Prize 2024 • Due to popular demand the deadline for this year’s British Art Prize has been extended by 12 days. Don’t delay and enter today!

Monet and London • Staying at The Savoy, Claude Monet painted many London landscapes that have never been exhibited in the capital until now, finds Amanda Hodges

The Banksy effect • In an edited extract from his book How Banksy Saved Art History, Kelly Grovier explains how the elusive artist has made works by the great masters newly relevant

Vincent van Gogh Poets and Lovers • A new exhibition brings together some of the famous artist’s most loved paintings from across the globe.

Fabric of life • MAŁGORZATA MIRGA-TAS ‘paints’ with textiles, transforming preloved fabric into vivid stories of women, family, art history and her Roma heritage in a new solo exhibition

STEP-BY-STEP studio • British Art Club member ERICA ANKERS is a contemporary soft pastel artist who creates semi-abstract, dynamic paintings with loose textural marks, layers of vibrant colour and energetic movement. She shares her suggestions for working with the medium

Drawing faces: Noses • In this third in instalment of our six-part series on the features of the face, JAKE SPICER will be taking a closer look at the nose

Poses and angles

Personal variation

Piggy back • BECKY GOUVERNEUR drew this pair of lemurs using a combination of charcoal sticks, pencils and charcoal powder

Barn dance • Artist JOHN HARRISON captures the charm of Dockray’s barns with the line and wash technique

A man’s best friend • TAMSIN DEARING spliced two photographs together to create this pencil portrait of a man and his dog. Here’s how she did it

You tell us

Picture this • Every month, we ask an artist to tell us about a painting that means a lot to them. This month, we speak to oil artist FRANCES FEATHERSTONE

DYNAMIC LIGHT & SHADOW