Patrick Hughes

The British Painter Invites Rosalind Ormiston Into a World of Distortion With His Three-dimensional Reverse Perspective Artworks.

Traditional V Contemporary

HASHIM AKIB explores two approaches to the medium

Katherine Jones

The printmaker shows us around her London workspace and reveals her fascinating practice.

The Right Support

With the winners announced, we find out why MARK CASS, of headline sponsor CASS ART, loves ARTISTS OF THE YEAR and why you should enter next year.

The Working Artist

Whatever your creative goals, making a business plan can help you reach them. LAURA BOSWELL explains how

Gary Wragg

Following a recent retrospective charting his career, we ask what drives this abstract painter.

Recessional Space

Artist TERENCE CLARKE explores how you can create distance and space in a painting using colour, tone and drawing.

About The House

Winner of the Artists & Illustrators award at this year’s Pastel Society exhibition, FELICITY HOUSE, chats to NATALIE MILNER about her glorious garden scenes

Fresh Paint

Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

The Eyes Have It

SHANI RHYS JAMES MBE is one of the UK’s most respected living painters. On the eve of her latest London exhibition, JENNY WHITE visited her studio

Gillian Ayres

Broadcaster and Art Lover Andrew Marr Thinks She Is ‘britain’s Finest Abstract Painter’. Now With a New Retrospective and Book Focusing on Her Work, Sally Hales Asks Him Why We Should All Be Taking Notice

The Working Artist

Selling Your Work in Greeting Card Format Is a Great Way to Introduce People to Your Art, as Well as Generate Extra Income

Sounds of the City

With this year’s Prize for Illustration exhibition about to open, Sally Hales chats to Wendy Neville and Mike Walton about the work on show and garners their advice on achieving competition success

Animals in Motion

Former Army Officer Freddy Paske Developed His Style on the Frontline. Now Known for His Sport and Wildlife Scenes, He Reveals How to Capture That Spark of Life

freedom of colour

jovan nicholson explores the powerful use of colour in the paintings of his late grandmother, the great winifred nicholson.

Natalia Goncharova The Cyclist, 1913

As Tate hosts the first major UK retrospective of the avant-garde Russian artist, RACHAEL FUNNELL takes a closer look at one of her most celebrated paintings.

The Curious Incident Of The Artist In His Spare Time

Celebrated for his award-winning novels and illustrations, MARK HADDON has always painted for pleasure. Now a new series of abstract paintings heralds his emergence as a gallery artist as SALLY HALES discovers

5 Things I've Learned: John Duffin

Words of wisdom from the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers member.

Guiding Light

As the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt approaches, his biographer ROSALIND ORMISTON celebrates the life and work of an artist we can all continue to learn from

In Her Nature

With access to her diaries, biographer WILLIAM PACKER offers fresh insight into the charming rural paintings of the late, great MARY NEWCOMB

Twilight Scenes

Colour and light changes quickly as night falls, posing challenges for landscape painters. NICK CUDWORTH shares a wealth of experience capturing these fleeting moments on canvas.

Sketching With Confidence

Wildlife artist TIM POND shares three great challenges designed to improve your hand-eye coordination and help you draw with conviction

Impasto Painting

Scottish artist JUDITH BRIDGLAND knows how to lay it on thick! Here she reveals how she uses substantial impasto marks to create her bright, expressive paintings

Coming Home

WAYNE ATTWOOD spent seven years living on a yacht painting in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, yet it took a return to Birmingham to truly find his artistic calling he tells STEVE PILL

The Working Artist

Artist residencies aren’t just for professionals, says our columnist LAURA BOSWELL. We should all take a little time to focus on our art.

Assemblages

RAY BALKWILL lives and paints on the banks of the Exe Estuary. He found inspiration for his latest project quite literally under his feet

Fresh Paint

Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

Fresh Paint

Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

Mary Jane Ansell

The figurative artist tells NATALIE MILNER why she loves to create haunting pictorial narratives in her paintings.

2. Black

AL GURY gets to grips with the paint colour’s history and explains how you can put it to good use