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.

WITH NITRAM CHARCOAL

Stay inspired by subscribing!

Landscapes take centre stage…

INTRODUCING

Artists & Illustrators

Sketchbook • TIPS ADVICE EXHIBITIONS NEWS REVIEWS

THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

SPRING INTO COLOUR 6 ISSUES FOR £12

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

WIN • Expert-guided online tuition to take your art further

We present… • AIDAN BUTLER This artist renders Dublin’s changeable weather in textured pastel, turning ordinary streets, bogs and coastlines into luminous landscapes

Jeffrey Pratt • This landscape artist sleeps in his paint van, trusting instinct and solitude to sharpen works finished en plein air, finds Meehika Barua

HOW I MAKE IT WORK Ann Cowan • This artist captures Edinburgh’s architecture through expressive mixed media. She shares her journey from lawyer to artist

Claire Castle • With a love of observed drawing, fused with painting, pattern and colour, CLAIRE CASTLE creates art directly influenced by the natural world, finds Niki Browes

THE BRITISH ART PRIZE 2026 BROUGHT TO YOU BY • 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

THE BIG INTERVIEW Steen Foege • This artist rethinks landscape painting through atmosphere and unexpected colour. Ramsha Vistro finds out why

In bloom • A new exhibition explores the beauty of plants and flowers, showing how many of them have long and surprising histories. They tell stories of passion, beauty and discovery. Sarah Edghill finds out more

Rose Wylie • Her cast of characters includes Elizabeth I, Marilyn Monroe and Serena Williams whilst also being witty, animated and energetic. A new show of her work is a must-see, says Amanda Hodges

STEP-BY-STEP Studio EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PAINT AND CREATE • RUSUDANA GLONTI, a member of the British Art Club, describes her style as romantic realism, whilst oils are her medium of choice. Here, she shares her musings on her art practice

Let’s twist • Using acrylic paint, SANDRA BUSBY explains how she captures the illusion of light and glass – with compelling results

Tropical tiger • BEX GLOVER shows you how she used a Meraki notebook to create a tiger in action in acrylic and spray paint

Street life • The 2025 British Art Prize’s People’s Choice winner COLIN REVELL shows you how he created a street scene – his favourite subject to paint – in watercolour

Eyes bright • LIZZIE COLES creates a portrait of her friend using a dynamic combination of coloured pencils and acrylic

Blue sky thinking • Scottish-born, IAIN STEWART shows you how he captured this watercolour scene in Rome from a photograph back at his studio in Alabama

Picture this • Every month, we ask an artist about a piece that is meaningful to them. This month, Canadian artist ROBBIE CRAIG tells us about his painting

Back by popular demand!

Second time lucky • Painting over an old, unsuccessful...