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.

Creating a piece of art can be many things…

INTRODUCING

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 SEPTEMBER ONWARDS

WIN! £1,000 TO SPEND ON AN ART GETAWAY • Enter our prize draw for the chance to reclaim your artistic passion, courtesy of professional artist and tutor MARILYN ALLIS

Lucy Marks • This contemporary landscape artist works en plein air and from her large studio set in an early Victorian villa, with seagulls as background noise and Louis her chihuahua as an assistant, Ramsha Vistro discovers

Emma Jane • For five years, Emma Jane has been running her art business from her tiny studio in Cornwall. Here’s what she’s learnt along the way

Sarah Jane Moon • Working between studios in London and the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, SARAH JANE MOON’s academic career took a back burner once she’d discovered the joy of painting, finds Niki Browes

We present… • GILL BUSTAMANTE An artist who believes there is magic all around us

Jenny Aitken • Award-winning marine artist JENNY AITKEN has strong family roots and connections to the Channel Islands and a deep love for the sea. Painting it from life is the most meditative thing she can do, finds Niki Browes

The Big Draw • Ahead of its 2022 festival with the theme, Come Back to Colour, we introduce you to nine of The Big Draw’s Ambassadors and Patrons

Returning Homer • WINSLOW HOMER: the quintessential American artist you’ve (probably) never heard of, says Martha Alexander

Rothko • The American abstract painter MARK ROTHKO is renowned for his colour field paintings that depicted painterly rectangular regions of colour. But it’s essential that we also consider and appreciate his earlier works, says his son Christopher Rothko

Coloured pencil portraitsraits Aux trois crayon palette • In this second of his five-part series on exploring different coloured pencil portrait palettes, JAKE SPICER demonstrates the aux trois crayon palette

Creative garden • INGRID SANCHEZ, AKA CREATIVEINGRID, paints this garden scene, featuring blooms and bleeds, in mixed media

On the buses • HASHIM AKIB shows you how to paint this busy London scene in his signature style, in acrylics

A direct approach • AL GURY shows you how to create an Alla Prima landscape painting through purposeful amendments and interpretation

You tell us

Picture this • In every issue, we ask an artist to tell us about a piece of work that means a lot to them. This month, we speak to award-winning pencil artist FREDERICK TERPSTRA