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.

Judging for The British Art Prize…

INTRODUCING

Artists & Illustrators

Sketchbook • TIPS • ADVICE • EXHIBITIONS • NEWS • REVIEWS

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

11 gifts of Christmas • Spread holiday cheer with thoughtful gifts for your creative loved ones this Christmas. Still pondering over what to get for the art enthusiast in your life? We’ve curated a selection of imaginative Christmas gifts that will inspire and delight, making your festive shopping easier than ever

Our annual Christmas hamper worth £3000! • Celebrate the festive season with our spectacular Christmas Prize Draw! One lucky winner will receive our luxurious Christmas Hamper, bursting with art supplies and seasonal delights, valued at £3000

How to push your art further • Discover five practical methods to advance your art practice

We present… • GLEN WILLIAMS This artist paints powerful reflections of community and shared experiences

Ruth Fitton • The winner of the first Raw Umber Paint Off is largely self-taught, whilst she attributes her musical education as an unlikely tool in helping her become the artist she is today, finds Niki Browes

Sarah Foat • This artist blends colour and texture through detailed acrylic layers. Ramsha Vistro digs deeper

Vicki McGrath • Discover how this artist’s unique style and daily practice turn everyday scenes into striking art

Chris Segre-Lewis • This artist creates spiritual landscapes, blending natural and human elements through a panoramic lens, as Bianca Dumas finds out

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Discover Constable AND The Hay Wain • A new exhibition at the National Gallery brings together paintings that influenced Constable’s The Hay Wain. We look into the making of the famous work along with the artist’s practice.

Tirzah Garwood • As a mother of three children and the wife of the much more famous Eric Ravilious, TIRZAH GARWOOD has largely been confined to the shadows of art’s story. A new exhibition is set to change all that, says Amanda Hodges

STEP-BY-STEP Studio EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PAINT AND CREATE • British Art Club member HANNAH BRUCE’s most recognised works are oil paintings for which her collections prioritise landscapes and cityscapes. She makes just two or three large-scale studio pieces per year, such as this Parisian street scene. Here are her top tips

Drawing faces: Mouths • In the fourth part of his six-part series on the features of the face, JAKE SPICER shows you how to master the art of drawing mouths

Poses and angles

Personal variation

Autumn woodland • BELINDA REYNELL shows you how she created colour and texture in this captivating woodland scene using water-mixable oils

Reflections • MATTHEW HAYDN JEANES shows you how he painted these reflections in watercolour whilst also using a little coloured pencil to sharpen things up

The pleasure of alla prima landscape painting • A longtime lover of alla prima painting, AL GURY shows you how he painted this riverside scene using the wet-on-wet technique

Picture this • In every issue, we ask an...