Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2025 i Artists & Illustrators

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Editor’s pick… A must-see for Radiohead fans, this show looks at the 30-year collaboration of artist Stanley Donwood and Radiohead’s lead singer, Thom Yorke, alongside iconic images of the band. On display are original paintings for album covers, unpublished drawings and lyrics in sketchbooks. Thom and Stanley met at university and joined forces in 1994 to design the cover of the band’s single My Iron Lung and related second album, The Bends. The exhibition explores the evolution of the images for the band’s albums and Yorke’s other musical projects. From 6 August 2025 to 11 January 2026 at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford OX1 2PH. ashmolean.org Don’t miss… Wild in Art is organising a series of art trails across the country this summer, featuring sculptures designed and painted by local artists.…

NATURE/NURTURE Until 21 July 2025 A solo exhibition by Sarah Jane Moon, a New Zealand-born British painter known for bold portraits that explore identity, gender and connection to place. Working primarily in oil, Sarah’s figurative paintings are rich in colour, gesture and surface. This show features large-scale portraits of influential UK-based LGBTQIA+ figures – including writer Diana Souhami and activist Peter Tatchell – shown alongside recent work from Aotearoa New Zealand, which includes intimate portraits of queer friends in richly observed landscapes, together with vivid studies of native birds and flora. The exhibition’s title, Nature/Nurture, reflects both debates around identity and the artist’s bicultural heritage. Downstairs, The Department Store 248 Ferndale Rd, London SW9 8FR. downstairsbrixton.com ARISE ALIVE Until 2 November 2025 This exhibition is about the career of Liliane…

SUN-KYONG CLIFFORD’S ART IS FULL OF COLOUR AND JOY, and she throws herself into each new project with boundless enthusiasm. This is despite the fact that, every time she starts a piece, she knows it will take her at least a hundred hours of intense work to complete it. “I remember my first 100-hour piece and thought it was unbelievable to have spent that much time on one drawing,” she says. “Now, it has become the norm.” Art and creativity were important to Sun as a child, from doing creative writing and animation at school, to taking part in a performance club at university. But growing up in South Korea, her path was heavily influenced by parental expectations. “My parents held a different vision for my future and anything ‘arty’…

CHANTAL JOFFE HAS NEVER BEEN ONE TO CONFORM to the norm, and her new exhibition, The Prince, seems set to challenge expectations. “I hope people are surprised to find a giant naked man lounging around,” she says. The exhibition’s title, The Prince, comes from conversations with the writer Olivia Laing, whose essay of the same name accompanies the exhibition. There are two large-scale series of paintings, accompanied by smaller portraits, all of which explore masculinity as a fluid state, full of possibilities of tenderness and change. Born into an artistic and creative family in 1969, Chantal Joffe did a foundation course at Camberwell College of Arts, followed by an honours degree in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Arts. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and…

EVERYONE LOVES TIGERS. Beautiful silky-smooth fur patterns, a graceful and flowing walk, and a majestic air are just some of the reasons they’re so admired by artists. Because they have such an iconic look, they’re an ideal subject to draw with a bit of stylisation, and that’s what I’m going to show you in this tutorial. If you’ve never tried a limited palette before, I can tell you it’s well worth a go. While I mainly draw with pastel pencils, with all those hundreds of colours available, I still limit my colours to around six, and that includes a black and white. I enjoy the way you can make pretty much any colour from a few simple crosshatches and the result is a much richer and more varied tone than…

SOMETIMES THE INSPIRATION FOR YOUR NEXT PAINTING can be right in front of you – literally. Trying to find the correct subject with great lighting and composition is quite an art: a lot of images won’t work. But now and again something presents itself which can give you the idea for a great painting. Subjects that work well are quiet, relatable moments where your audience not only sees the image, but recognises ‘the moment’. This happened to me with this painting. While out for a quiet lunch, my subject, Julian, was across the table from me, bathed in a beautiful back light, with a glass of wine while he contemplated the menu for his meal – a scene we have all seen a million times with different people. In these…

These are just some of the subjects that will keep you stimulated in your art practice as we bask in the final summer months. Get inspiration from Helena Boase who encourages you to take your easel outside; she points out that even the changing weather is a plus - after all, it encourages you to be quick, which may be a new way of working for you. Embrace it! In the second part of his acrylic series, Hashim Akib shows you how to play with lights and darks, in this case, a scene from a picturesque village. Following his advice will help you enhance your focal point and draw in the viewer. Then, we also have an exclusive extract from Mark Stopforth on how to paint alla prima skies. So…

30 JULY Entries invited for the Boynes Artist Award from emerging, midcareer and established artists. Cash prizes of up to $2000. Entry $40 for three works. boynesartistaward.com 20 AUGUST Entries invited for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters: Revealing the Human. Open to all who draw; top prize £5,000. Artopps.co.uk/opportunities/rpdrawingprize 22 AUGUST Call for wildlife subjects for the Society of Wildlife Artists’ 62nd Annual Exhibition: The Natural Eye, at The Mall Galleries. Entry £20. Open to non-members. mallgalleries.org.uk 26 AUGUST Call for the Bath Society of Artists’ 120th Annual Open Exhibition, due to run from October to January 2026. Prizes of up to £2,000. bathsocietyofartists.oess1.uk/…

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I have a day job that has nothing to do with art and I don’t depend on art for my living. I’ve always loved drawing and painting but, odd as it seems to me now, there were a few years when I thought there was no use in painting – that I couldn’t justify spending time on it. I still wanted to paint and brought my colours and brushes on vacation, but often found myself packing them away again, unused, in my suitcase at the end of summer. Then, in 2020, I decided to paint something every day for four weeks and post it on Instagram for accountability. I wanted to keep it a low-pressure challenge – it was my vacation, after all – and gave myself permission to paint…

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PAINT AND CREATE 1 Ahead of the initial sketch, it’s good practice to spend a few minutes tracing the building by eye, observing the lines, shapes, shadows and little details you wish to include. Drawing a small sunshine in the corner of your sketch helps establish the light source, ensuring your shadows and lighting stay consistent throughout. 2 I love fine detail and marvel at the design and workmanship of beautiful historic buildings, especially those with a story. But if you’re overwhelmed by the detail of a building, try focusing on the negative space; look at the shapes around the object rather than the object itself. This shift in focus can make complex structures simpler to draw. 3 I always sketch in pen; it helps me observe what I’m…

‘The real subject of every painting is light.’CLAUDE MONET WHENEVER I’M PAINTING A PIECE, I am constantly appraising each movement, blend and nuance along the way. When you break it down, the number of decisions you’re making will reach well into the thousands. The trick is not to overthink what you’re doing and just respond to the paint and what it is doing or wants to do. This is a misty scene, reminiscent of those you find on a winter’s morning on fell, fen and moor. The light is from above or slightly to one side and will have a diffuse glow to it. The foreground will contrast with the light, ethereal atmosphere in the air but will hint at patches of light to the left and right; the horizon…

HELENA BOASE Helena is a British artist working primarily in oil paint who works largely from life, painting portraits, figurative art, still life and landscapes. She works at London Fine Art Studios alongside her own practice. For more information, go to her Instagram @helenaboaseartist MARK STOPFORTH Mark specialises in alla prima oil paintings, which he has been working at for thirty years. His contemporary work is inspired by 19th Century Masters of the romantic and the sublime, while he has exhibited on a number of occasions at the RWA and is represented by The Paragon Gallery, Cheltenham. NATASHA MOTT Natasha’s paintings are energetic echoes of shared experiences and nostalgia. Growing up on a farm, she studied art and teaching before settling a short drive from the beach, where she now…

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IF THERE’S ONE THING SARAH EDEN KNOWS how to do, it’s provide overlooked creatures with a moment in the spotlight. From quietly noble badgers to the much-maligned mouse, her oil paintings lift the everyday and the often-ignored, capturing wildlife with a realism that’s both reverent and full of personality. Based in rural Wiltshire, Sarah paints what she sees, from curious hares and elusive foxes to bees and birds mid-flight. After a detour into the world of sales with a language degree, Sarah returned to her true calling: art. Over the last decade, she has built a career on pet portraiture, with commissions from as far afield as Milan and Tasmania, but her focus has now shifted towards her own collections. She talks about artistic pivots, painting with purpose and why…

JENNY SAVILLE IS KNOWN FOR HER LARGE-SCALE PORTRAITS of the female body, often depicted with grotesque exaggeration and distorted features. She links the intricacies of bodily flesh to the layering of thick impasto paint on a stretched canvas, to realise the visual complexities of the human body. A major retrospective this summer at the National Portrait Gallery - Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, curated by Sarah Howgate - explores the development of her art practice and shows why Saville is lauded as a figurative painter. Born in Cambridge, England in 1970, Saville studied art at the Glasgow School of Art, with a semester spent at the University of Cincinnati in 1991. While there, she travelled to New York and saw the work of Dutch-born American painter Willem de Kooning.…

Extremes in dark and light are effective tools in creating punchy focal points. I have painted lots of sunny, acrylic street scenes – mainly backlit – and really enjoyed dabbing in the sparkly highlights on heads and shoulders, cars, buses and street furniture. They worked well because the backgrounds were dark, covering relatively large areas. The highlights created little stepping stones of interest, leading to larger pockets of light that enveloped the road or went to an open sky. The effect of light cutting through darks can really focus the eye with less obsessing in unimportant areas. The secret is to play up light in the focal points so they really crackle and play down the other highlights. You can also enhance the darks by using small quantities of black…

IN MY OPINION, British summers are rather fantastic, especially when spent in a garden. Even if you’re not naturally green-fingered, being a painter gives you a wonderful opportunity to enjoy and engage creatively with a garden. In this article, I’ll run you through how I paint gardens en plein air: the difficulties, the key pieces of kit you need and the things to bear in mind. The elements that attract us to gardens are often the very elements that can cause the painter considerable grief: flowers, different bushes, plants all various shades of green, changing light, fast-moving clouds… the list goes on. Unsurprisingly, the weather is the biggest consideration of all and means one must often work more quickly than is ideal to capture the general impression of a scene.…