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

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THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

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

WIN • One of 11 Online Art Club places

We present… JULIA MCGIBBON • This artist’s career flourished after she took up art again later in life

Martin Grover • This screen printer and painter tells Alfie Hoyle about his journey as an artist, and some of the interesting stops along the way

HOW I MAKE IT WORK Charles Inge • This artist left an award-winning career as an advertising creative, to pursue his artistic dreams

Lydia Wood • Pencil artist LYDIA WOOD tells Douglas McPherson about her ongoing mission to draw every pub in London – more than 3000 of them – even if it takes a lifetime

Gerard Stamp • After 25 years working as an art director, this artist turned his love of ecclesiastical architecture into an alternative, extremely successful, career. Sarah Edghill learns what inspires him

Painting the French Riviera • For hundreds of years, artists have been drawn to the beauty and unique light of the South of France. Amanda Hodges learns how a new exhibition explores the role of the area in the development of modernism

In the frame • Artists SARAH JANE MOON and TOM CROFT, along with framer GINO FRANCHI, discuss the transformative power of framing with Tom Stopford

VOTE for The People’s Choice Award • Judging for this year’s British Art Prize has closed and we have our shortlist of 75. The winners will be revealed in the next issue but for now we’d like you to vote for The People’s Choice Award!

Step-by-step studio • British Art Club member FRANK COLLICT is a landscape artist who works en plein air whenever possible. Here he shares what he has learnt along the way

A postcard from Provence • Yorkshire artist JOHN HARRISON – a diehard pen and watercolour chap - tested out STAEDTLER’S pigment arts brush pens and was thrilled with the vibrant results

Forging a portraıt • MATTHEW LYONS combines several photographs to create a portrait of his friend, blacksmith Richard Maynard

North by Northwest • MATTY BURNHAM, a former cover artist, uses line wash and to recreate this charming Yorkshire lodge – using his creative licence with aplomb

Funny onion (and friends) • VICKI MCGRATH is a Chicago-based gouache and acrylic painter who likes to convey her subjects with a strong focus on colour, light and shadow. Here she creates a vegetable medley still life in gouache

Brick house • ASTRID WIELINGA loves to holiday in England and finds inspiration every time she visits Rye. In an exclusive extract from her new book, she shows you how she captured this charming red brick building in watercolour and fine liners

Regal • Our cover star CLAIRE YATES captures this handsome Maine Coon cat in pastel sticks, Pan and pencils

The Art Index •  CLUBS • WORKSHOPS • PRODUCTS • ADVICE

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