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

THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

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

WIN A painting retreat in Tuscany • Five lucky winners will each win a £200 voucher to use towards an Italian art holiday, courtesy of THE WATERMILL AT POSARA

We present… KATHY GALES • This artist combines layered acrylic, collage and intricate mark-making to create textured pieces

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HOW I MAKE IT WORK Jennifer Taylor • This artist turned years of experimentation and daily practice into a successful, internationally collected career

Tom Davey • Contemporary Impressionist, TOM DAVEY, uses loose brushstrokes and works with shifting light to create scenes of everyday life in his home city of Bath. He tells Sarah Edghill how he creates in oil between the street and the studio

Darrell Warner • An internationally acclaimed artist and illustrator, predominantly known for his work in costume design on Hollywood blockbusters, Darrell Warner’s personal work seeks to question how we look at and relate to both art and nature. Niki Browes learns more

Lynton Parm ar-Hemsley • From capturing the urban scenes of city life to painting en plein air in the more genteel settings of Yorkshire, LYNTON PARMAR-HEMSLEY tells Alfie Hoyle how he has fostered a lifelong love of art

A view of one’s own • Forgotten but formidable: British women redefine landscape art at the Courtauld Gallery. Ramsha Vistro brings them into focus

The winner takes it all! • Bagging the first prize in The British Art Prize had a profound impact on these past prize winners’ practice. They give a glimpse into its influence

THE BRITISH ART PRIZE 2026 • Artists & Illustrators is delighted to be back with The British Art Prize 2026. 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 this magazine

Step-by-step studio • Each month we speak to a member of The British Art Club about their art practice. Here, oil artist ANGELA SKABRIN shares her tips

Ways of seeing • British Art Prize winner MICHELE ASHBY creates honest and individual paintings in pastel. Here’s a reflective self-portrait

Little weed • If you want to paint a beautiful and accurate picture of a plant, yet find the language of botany difficult, Sarah Howard’s book, Watercolour Botanical Art: The Complete Practical Guide For Artists is for you. Here, we bring you an exclusive extract by a featured artist, JULIA TRICKEY

About a buoy • IVANA LAVELLE’s work draws on experiences of a landscape through documenting, removing and adding elements. Here she creates a scene of an abandoned lifebuoy in graphite and acrylic

The light fantastic • Watercolour master VLADISLAV YELISEYEV is praised for his command of light and colour, showcased through bold brushstrokes, skilful colour schemes and clear calligraphy. He paints this street scene exclusively for Artists & Illustrators

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