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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We present… • Bold colour and fractured forms define this Surrey-based artist’s distinctive style

HOW I MAKE IT WORK Sidra Fatima • From physics student to working concept artist, this is a journey shaped by portfolio building and exploration

Lucy Ann O’Donnell • LUCY ANN O’DONNELL takes a break from creating her hyperrealist art to get real with Alfie Hoyle. She reveals how she is living a childhood dream of being an artist and describes how she explores the power of light and detail through her work

Peter Davis • A painter who sees his practice as part of a social documentary, acrylic professional artist PETER DAVIS wants his work to make the viewer stop and think about the world and the people in it. Niki Browes gets a ring-side seat

Harriet Salt • Classically trained oil artist, HARRIET SALT, tells Sarah Edghill how she records light and movement in her work

Frida The making of an icon • She’s one of the most influential painters of all time but it’s FRIDA KAHLO’s image, as well as her work, that has made her into a global brand. Now an ambitious new show explores how, against all odds, she became a bona fide icon from beyond the grave.

The support report • Entering The British Art Prize doesn’t just mean prizes, accolades and exhibition opportunities. It also means ongoing support within this magazine. Join the club

British landscapes A sense of place • Enjoyment of the landscape has been documented since artists began to paint. A new exhibition at Pallant House explores the deep emotional, cultural and imaginative bond between people and the landscapes they inhabit. Amanda Hodges finds out more

Step-by-step studio • This British Art Club member loves to capture sunny beach huts in oil. Here, LINDA MONK shares what she’s learnt along the way

Tell-tail • Using a mixture of watercolour, water-soluble coloured pencils and pigment markers, JO ALLSOPP creates this long-tailed tit in her signature unconventional style

Skin deep • ELLA JOHNSTON shows you how to create a block self-portrait using POSCA skin tones

Ye olde book shop • Dutch artists ALBERT KIEFER – AKA The Housesketcher – shows you how he created this higgledy-piggledy Tudor bookstore in Kent using fine liners and alcohol-based markers

Community hub • A British Art Prize finalist, NAOMI TOMKYS OBE paints a historical Cambridge landmark en plein air in oil

Raising the bar • ROSS POLLARD demonstrates how he created a bas-relief portrait of his young niece

Bloomin’ marvellous • Leicestershire-based artist CATHERINE SHAW creates a blossoming vase of florals using Caran d’Ache’s Neoart 6901™ Wax Oil Pastels

In the frame

Art and about • The UK is a home to a brilliant bunch of artists, keen to show off what they’ve been up to. We tell you what’s on up and down the country this month

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