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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SKETCHBOOK • TIPS • ADVICE • EXHIBITIONS • NEWS • REVIEWS

THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

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We present… • KAY ASHTON This artist blends meticulous realism with expressive techniques, creating paintings that engage, delight and inspire viewers

THE BRITISH ART PRIZE 2026 • The British Art Prize 2026 is here, with more prizes – and kudos – than ever before

The British Art Prize’s perfect new sponsor! • The sponsor for the British Art Prize 2026 needs no introduction. STAEDTLER is a long-established and global powerhouse in the business of art supplies. Here’s why they are the perfect partner for this year’s competition

Kareem Baqai • Swapping a life of digital design for his first love of painting, this artist creates work with honesty and feeling, finds Niki Browes

HOW I MAKE IT WORK Jason Anderson • This artist transforms reflections into bold, geometric abstractions, merging stained glass techniques with vibrant colour

Rob Pointon • This artist transforms everyday British scenes through fearless en plein air painting, using wide-angle perspectives to create dynamic, immersive pieces, says Ramsha Vistro

Peter Brown • The chap who earned the nickname ‘Pete the Street’ due to him painting amazing scenes around Bath and Bristol, tells Sarah Edghill about his practice

The Pattle sisters Women of influence • The seven Pattle sisters’ extensive social circle – of artists, politicians, poets, scientists and musicians – was colloquially known as ‘Pattledom,’ whilst their offspring included Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. A fascinating family, says Rosalind Ormiston

Hockney • DAVID HOCKNEY has been at the forefront of the international art world for more than six decades. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine, London, catches up with him ahead of Serpentine’s first ever David Hockney exhibition

Marvellous Tracey from Margate • She once shocked as British art’s resident wild child. Now, having survived cancer, criticism and controversy, DAME TRACEY EMIN is part of the establishment. Her new show at Tate Modern charts 40 years of her career – with a fresh focus on her first discipline: painting, finds Martha Alexander

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Living in the city • Watercolour expert ASHWANI VERMA shows you how he captured a hazy rain-swept Piccadilly Circus in his favoured medium – with entrancing results

Mona Lisa smile • It has been described as ‘the best known the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about and the most parodied work of art in the world.’ So SEMA MARTIN set herself quite the...