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

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

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We present… • ANITA NOWINSKA This artist turns loss into luminous, life-affirming canvases of nature

James Hobbs • A former editor of Artists & Illustrators, JAMES HOBBS is now a prolific sketchbook artist and successful author, unbound by precision and perfection, finds Niki Browes

HOW I MAKE IT WORK Kenny Harris • This artist has built an acclaimed career painting light and space, with works exhibited internationally and collected widely

Magdalena Starzyńska • This Polish artist turns natural scenes into serene, geometrical paintings that invite pause and attention, says Ramsha Vistro

Richard Claremont • This artist captures the beauty of life, often hidden in plain sight, whilst he likes to work from feeling, finds Sarah Edghill

Radical harmony • A new exhibition at the National Gallery connects the dots and lets you indulge in the world’s most significant collection of Neo-Impressionism, says Amanda Hodges

How to improve your art practice • You might be the world’s best painter but, without the right resources, you can still go unnoticed. Not if you follow this advice, says Sarah Edghill

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

Monkeying around • HASHIM AKIB encourages you to wean yourself off drawing too much to really express yourself through paint. Give it a whirl

Café culture

Lonely planet • A recent Artists & Illustrators cover star, MATTY BURNHAM is an ink and watercolour artist inspired by striking landscapes, such as this one in the Scottish Highlands

Port of call • KATE FELTON-HALL is a Suffolk-based painter who used to work in advertising before becoming a full-time artist. Here, she shows you how she painted the harbour of Southwold in oil, and then framed it in a new need-to-know, affordable frame solution

Je’ taime • ASHWANI VERMA fell in love with the charm of Paris when he visited last year. Here, he captures a traditional Parisian cityscape in watercolour

Glow in the dark • SEMA MARTIN created this cosy fireside scene using her trademark PanPastel, as well as coloured pencil and black paper

Picture this • In every issue, we ask an artist to tell us about a piece of work that is important to them. This month, we speak to oil artist SUSANNA MACINNES