Artists & Illustrators - UK (2021-04)

Over the next nine pages, three recent recipients of major awards share their experiences of commissions, concepts and what it m ...

ILLUSTRATION NOW What do you see is your role as an illustrator today? To ideally bring moments for people to pause, digest, and ...

ILLUSTRATION NOW I HOPE MY WORK CAN ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT LIKE THEM It is! I cover my kitch ...

WINNER,V&AILLUSTRATOROFTHEYEAR 2020 ann kierNaN You studied “classical animation”. What did that entail? It is old school, a ...

ILLUSTRATION NOW TO KEEP YOUR WORK ALIVE, YOU NEED TO BE CONSTANTLY EXPLORING Yeah, digital work can recreate watercolour washes ...

You won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Tales from the Inner City, a book based around relationships between humans and animals. Ho ...

ILLUSTRATION NOW I LIKE IT WHEN IMAGES SHOW SOME ASPECT OF A STORY NOT REPRESENTED AT ALL BY TEXT – AND VICE VERSA kind of think ...

all the time. What converted me was the realisation that, at some point, you need to be able to find your ideas, not just scribb ...

COLUMNIST ABOVE Laura Boswell, Road to Rosedale, Evening Light, woodblock, 5 x 1 9 c m When you are working, do you give your ...

Anillustrative,Impressioniststyle andafascinationwiththeroles peopleplay helpedthispioneering paintermakehermark,saysMore ThanAM ...

ART HISTORY Ruby Loftus Screwing a Beech Ring played into a key interest in Dame Laura’s work: the roles people play with little ...

ART HISTORY In 1936, Dame Laura became the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy of Arts NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LON ...

ART HISTORY almost-Impressionist painting of two women on the seafront. There are elements of careful detail – the orange folds ...

Being an artist is much, much more than the craft – it’s a way of seeing the world and engaging with people ...

REBECCABRADBURYmeetstheGermanpainter whohasreinvigoratedclassicalgenresand spokentoanewgenerationfromhis Ruhrstudio ABOVEAlpayin ...

IN THE STUDIO Germany’s Ruhr region, where he’s been living and working for the past six or seven years. An inclination for the ...

IN THE STUDIO among his peers helped grab the attention of gallerists. He may be downplaying his artistic technique and flair, b ...

IN THE STUDIO pre-empting the incoming layers. The process is, he says, a matter of creation, destruction and re-working. “These ...

ABOVETranquil,oil onpanel,30x30cm Alpay is focused on his digital content, with two workstations set up in his white-washed stud ...

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