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.

From the editor

INTRODUCING

Sketchbook • TIPS • ADVICE • EXHIBITIONS • NEWS • REVIEWS

3 ISSUES FOR £5 • From oils to watercolours and portraits to abstracts, Artists & Illustrators delivers a refreshing blend of creative inspiration and practical advice

THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

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

WIN Pigment Arts Brush Pen Sets worth £1,000 • Four lucky winners will each receive a set of STAEDTLER pens worth £250

We present… • This wildlife artist aims to keep her work realistic, while embracing colour and vibrancy, and using her art to support wildlife charities

Gethyn Davies • This landscape and figurative artist tries to avoid having his work categorised. He tells Meehika Barua about his unique style

Amy Chudley • After initially painting portraits and landscapes, this artist fell in love with – and found success through - still life

Richard Suckling • Devoted to his craft, RICHARD SUCKLING tells Alfie Hoyle what led him to become a soft pastel painter

Jorge Arévalo • The internationally renowned illustrator tells Sarah Edghill how he creates his flamboyant and arresting works of art

Bowling Driven to drawing • A new exhibition at the Royal Drawing School follows more than 60 years of FRANK BOWLING’s sketches, experiments and works on paper. Meehika Barua discovers the process that has always guided his colourful practice

Hurvin Anderson • An exhibition at Tate Britain offers the chance to experience the intensely colourful work of artist HURVIN ANDERSON. Sarah Edghill learns more

THE BRITISH ART PRIZE 2026 • This is the final call for The British Art Prize 2026! The competition closes on 7 August, so enter today for the chance to win bigger and better prizes than ever before, have your work exhibited at two major London galleries and be featured in Artists & Illustrators

Step-by-step studio • British Art Club member RICHARD MACWEE is a professional wildlife artist and illustrator, who works in soft pastels, oil or graphite. Here, he shares what he has learnt along the way

Fields of joy • ZORITZA WILLIAMS paints this freshly harvested field with hovering dark clouds on Pastelmat, using the new Blockx pastels and others

Magical mushrooms • Watercolour artist and founder of Nature Studio ANNA MASON shows how to create a realistic painting of this beautiful giant toadstool

Playing with portraits • In an exclusive extract from his new book, JAMES BLAND shows how he painted this oil portrait of his fellow artist, Abigail Burton

Moving on up • HELENA BOASE shows how to use small en plein air studies to scale up and create larger paintings in the studio

True blue • OKSANA ABDUKADYROVA paints a delicate blue hydrangea in watercolour, building its rounded form with transparent layers and soft shifts of colour

Have transport, will travel • In an exclusive extract from her new book, The Traveling Sketcher: City, ALICE MAWDSLEY invites you to slow down, look closely and preserve your travel memories through drawing

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