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

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

WORLD ART DAY OFFER

WIN! Over £1,100 worth of art memberships • This is your chance to join THE BONNY SNOWDON ACADEMY

We present… ELAINE SMITH • This Canadian artist chases freedom in paint, layering translucence and texture to create art that intrigues, invites and refuses to be confined

Rob Adamson • Captivated by the urban glow, this artist stumbled upon his niche by chance and now transforms everyday street corners into luminous architectural studies, finds Bianca Dumas

HOW I MAKE IT WORK Ale Casanova • This Spanish artist balances painting, teaching and family, navigating both his work and personal life

Richard Kitson • This artist paints emotive, lifelike portraits capturing raw, honest moments. Ramsha Vistro finds out more

Ollie Le Brocq • This artist distils light, form and colour, blending crisp geometry with quietly enigmatic figures, says Ramsha Vistro

XXX marks the spot • Internationally acclaimed artist and writer HARLAND MILLER returns to his Yorkshire roots with XXX, a new exhibition showcasing paintings and works on paper from his renowned Letter Paintings series. Sarah Edghill reports in

Ready up! • Our annual art competition attracts entries by the thousands every year. Whilst it may not yet be open, we wanted to raise a hand and encourage you to start putting paint to paper now…

From light • Light is the focal point of this new exhibition by ALISON WATT, along with the space it inhabits. Amanda Hodges finds out more

STEP-BY-STEP studio • EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PAINT AND CREATE

Mastering values in watercolour • In the third part of this series, world-renowned watercolour master ALVARO CASTAGNET shows you his approach on values

People watching • MATTHEW HAYDN JEANES went along to the Painting Fair in Wimborne, Dorset. Despite being unable to participate in a demonstration due to an injury, he still felt compelled to paint this portrait of a fellow artist in watercolour

Living in a box • SUSAN MURRAY shares her knowledge of drawing animals in coloured pencil with this glorious portrait of an inquisitive tabby cat, who found a hideaway in a cardboard box

Nosy Parker • Award-winning coloured pencil artist, tutor and art coach based in North Yorkshire, BONNY SNOWDON specialises in animal portraits. Here, she draws a cute little Yorkie

Eye spy • Former British Art Prize finalist GEOFFREY HARRISON shows you how he completed this graphite pencil self-portrait in just an hour-and-a-half

You tell us

Picture this • Every month, we ask an artist to tell us about a painting that is special to them. This month, we speak to Rutland-based oil painter FIONA CARVER about one of her favourite paintings