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

WIN Online art courses • A total prize fund of £1,200 is up for grabs – split between three lucky winners. Courtesy of LONDON ART COLLEGE

We present… • BEATRICE CLOAKE This artist paints daily at 78, drawing on a lifetime of bold colour, personal grit and a deep love of light

Nisha Sehjpal • This artist believes that her lack of formal training has encouraged her to be experimental. She tells Sarah Edghill why it isn’t about following rules as an artist. Do what feels right for you

HOW I MAKE IT WORK Paola Luther • This artist transformed her passion for landscapes into a thriving career through consistency and community

Emily Ponsonby • With beeswax and oil, this artist captures resilience, texture and intimate moments rooted in rural Dorset living, says Ramsha Vistro

Frank Walters • This artist says he is a tutor first and an artist second, such is his love of teaching watercolour methods to others. He tells Niki Browes about his art practice

Master plan • Every year, The British Art Prize has a fabulous consortium of judges. This month, ALVARO CASTAGNET, one of the world’s great watercolour masters, tells us about his involvement with the prize

Life on the land • Marking 150 years since his death, JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET’s unflinching vision of peasant life takes centre stage at the National Gallery.

Kiefer & van Gogh • Anselm Kiefer’s lifelong dialogue with van Gogh culminates in a powerful Royal Academy show exploring art, struggle and legacy.

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

Sculpture vulture • In the third of a six-part series, HASHIM AKIB encourages you to think sculpturally when working with acrylic

Pimm’s o’clock • california-based artist KATIE JACOBSON centres her work on the essence of life around her. Here, she decorates a bottle of Pimm’s with the colourful garnishes that make it such a summery drink

Low tide • CRAIG ALLEN LEE is an award-winning self-taught artist who likes to capture a sense of place in his oil paintings. Here, he paints a harbour in a moment of calm

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Summer meadow • Oil painter DAVID SCHAB likes to paint using strong colours whilst his method plays with light and shadow. Here, he captures a beautiful meadow in his colourist style

Pur-fect • Pencil artist FREDERICK TERPSTRA shows you how he paintined this commission of a pet in pencil, revealing his techniques for tone and shadow

Picture this • To conclude the magazine, we ask an artist to tell us why one of their paintings is so important to them. This month, we speak to ink, watercolour and digital artist RUTHIE