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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BOOK OF THE MONTH • SURREALISTS IN NEW YORK ATELIER 17 AND THE BIRTH OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

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Exhibitions • THE BEST ART SHOWS TO VISIT FROM APRIL ONWARDS

Be inspired by Royal Talens’ Van Gogh range • The VAN GOGH range is good on quality and on price. We give you an overview into their extensive products

WIN! £1,000 TO SPEND ON AN ART HOLIDAY • Capture the magic of Cornwall, courtesy of HOGANART

We present… • MARTI HALL An abstract artist who found her way through botanical art

Brigitte Granton • This month’s cover artist hopes to evoke a sense of peace and joy through her landscapes, discovers Ramsha Vistro

James Bland • Contemporary British artist James Bland tells us what draws him to figurative art

JAMES’ TIPS ON BECOMING A FULL-TIME ARTIST

Annie Morris • After 16 years as a couple, Idris Khan and Annie Morris are sharing a carefully curated exhibition together for the first time in the UK. ANNIE MORRIS tells Niki Browes about it, as well as how her life experiences directly influence her work

Jessica Brilli • Boston-based oil painter JESSICA BRILLI takes inspiration from old photographs, whilst her style is influenced by her childhood and earlier work as a graphic designer. Niki Browes finds out more

Unsung heroine: the interior world of Berthe Morisot • She was a founding member of the Impressionists, but writers of the 20th century tended to focus on BERTHE MORISOT’s male colleagues. Now, a new exhibition showcasing her work puts her back on centre stage, says Martha Alexander

After Impressionism Inventing modern art • A new exhibition at the National Gallery explores a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Truth to nature The revolutionary Rossettis • The works of the precocious ROSSETTI siblings – Maria, Dante Gabriel, William Michael and Christina – are the subject of a beautiful, must-see new exhibition at Tate Britain.

The mystical worlds of Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian • A new exhibition at the Tate Modern links visionary artists HILMA AF KLINT and PIET MONDRIAN through their deep interest in ecological and spiritual forms of life.

Moody blues • Landscape painter LUCY MARKS shows you how you can paint a scene en plein air and then recreate it back in your studio with just the painting and your notes to guide you

Pebble beach • PHILIP HUCKIN is a landscape artist living in Wales, whose valleys, hills and villages he loves to paint. Here, he shows you how he tackled painting an estuary in one of the most beautiful bays in the country

Bloomin’ marvellous • Multidisciplinary artist FATIMA PANTOJA paints a vase of her favourite flowers in acrylic. Here’s...