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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Exhibitions • THE BEST ART SHOWS TO VISIT THIS SEPTEMBER

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Tamsin Dearing • This talented artist spends hours creating detailed portraits in her Cornish studio, and, as she tells Sarah Edghill, aims to capture every wrinkle and laughter line

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Rory Hancock • Art never stands still and RORY HANCOCK is proud of the fact that his work is constantly evolving, as he tells Niki Browes

We present… • ROBERT MEE An artist who has invented a novel way to travel and paint

Tom Croft • He may have been awarded a British Empire Medal for initiating Portraits for NHS Heroes, but TOM CROFT is at his happiest when challenged with capturing the visual appearance of a person

Jim Moir • Fans of JIM MOIR - AKA the comedian, writer, artist, and national treasure Vic Reeves - will already know about his love of birds. Now he’s turned it into an artistic obsession, finds Niki Browes

Jurga Vilimaite • Jurga Vilimaite is a watercolourist and Manager of Cass Art’s London flagship store in Islington. We caught up with her to find out about her practice and get her top tips for watercolour painting

Milton Avery • Hi name is not well known in Britain but a new show at the Royal Academy is about to introduce Avery to a whole new audience says Adrian Mourby

Adebanji Alade • The One Show’s resident artist and award winning painter tells us about five significant paintings in his life

Coloured pencil portraits • In this new five-part series, JAKE SPICER will be exploring a series of approaches to drawing a portrait in coloured pencil, using a range of different colour palettes and processes

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The bigger picture • In the last of our landscape series, ANN WITHERIDGE shows how to create a large landscape painting using the techniques from the previous articles

Hare today… • The endangered mountain hare is a popular subject for artists, a creature steeped in folklore, myth and legend. PENEL KIRK shows you how to paint one in mixed media

Painting Arthur • MATTHEW HAYDN JEANES shows you his tricks and techniques for painting this greyhound in watercolour

Dark and stormy • Cass Art Ambassador GREGORY MASON shows you how he captured this Maldives seascape in oil

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Picture this • BELLA MARTINEAU won the Artists & Illustrators prize for her painting The Breakfast Show at the Chelsea Art Society’s 73rd Annual Exhibition. She tells us about the story behind the painting