Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2022 i Artists & Illustrators

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Things we love… Hurvin Anderson’s worldview was shaped by his immersion in two distinct cultures. Steeped in the vivid colours of the Caribbean and contrasted with urban English landscapes, Anderson’s work disrupts the binaries of place. His first major monograph, published this October, retraces the British painter’s entire oeuvre, from his early career Audition paintings to his latest works on Jamaican hotels. Hurvin Anderson by Catherine Lampert, Roger Robinson and Courtney J. Martin, £55.00 © Rizzoli New York, 2022 Explore… …a new immersive installation by Korean-Canadian artist Zadie Xa. Her largest solo exhibition in London to date features fabric walls, paintings and sculptures alongside light and sound elements. The work will explore folklore and the ‘trickster’ archetype, paying particular attention to the ways in which it relates to our current…

CHANGING TIMES: A CENTURY OF MODERN BRITISH ART 15th October 2022 – 16th April 2023 From Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden and Paul Nash to Elisabeth Frink, David Hockney and Lucian Freud, some of the biggest names in British art are coming together in a vibrant, wide-ranging exhibition that explores the history of British art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Visitors will find various sculptures, paintings and works on paper by some of the best-known and well-loved names from the UK’s art scene. The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD thehigginsbedford.org.uk ANDY ROBERT – TI ZWAZO CLARENDON: YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN; YOU JUST CAN’T STAY Until 5th November 2022 The first European solo exhibition by Haiti-born painter Andy Robert is challenging a static understanding of history. Through perspective…

KATE SEGAL GREW UP in 1990s New York City, and with a long line of female artists on both sides of her family, had the privilege of going to museums such as the MoMA and the Whitney from a young age. So, creating and viewing art had always been a part of her life. “I remember when I was very little, my grandma Marian bought me a book called Katie’s Picture Show and it was about a little girl who went to a museum and was able to climb into various pictures. She climbed into a Kandinsky painting and was hanging off a circle’s landing on one of the squares. I remember feeling really envious.” Her grandmother was a fashion illustrator back in the 60s, whose work was featured across…

… to our longest-reigning monarch, the Queen, the world witnessed a once in a lifetime moment in history whilst her passing may leave the country feeling in a state of flux. Which is why art from the past and present helps to keep us grounded at times of uncertainty. Art is ageless because it connects people of different generations, ages and ethnicities. Whether it was created 200 years ago or yesterday, it has a creative, spiritual sense to it that can have a positive, lasting impact on anyone, irrespective of their age. Take cover artist Lucy McKie. She tells us, “I love walking around art galleries and seeing how painters in the past have captured the very essence of their sitters. It’s such a powerful link with history.” American artist…

10 OCTOBER Sir John Soane’s Museum invites creatives for the Artist at Soane residency. You'll get an honorarium of £1,500 to cover materials and expenses. artistatsoane.artopps.co.uk 31 OCTOBER Enter the NordArt annual exhibition of visual arts in Büdelsdorf, Germany, to win €10,000. Three Public Choice Awards will also be awarded €1,000 each. Free to enter. nordart.de 10 NOVEMBER Win up to €3,000 by submitting your illustrations for the 18th Tapirulan’s Illustrators Contest, with the theme ‘tilt’. Entry costs €15. illustratorscontest.tapirulan.it 30 NOVEMBER 2022 Open to artists aged 16-25, The Young Botanical Artist Competition invites artists to submit 2D botanical artworks. shirleysherwood.com/YoungBotanicalArtist…

AFTER FINISHING UNIVERSITY in digital art, I wanted to get back in touch with traditional mediums. After a couple of months, I had quite a big pile of paintings and thought I should try and sell them. So, I put them on eBay. Not long after, I was earning more than I was spending. My wildlife paintings were the most popular, but I felt the desire to try more ambitious subjects. So, I relocated to the place that has truly inspired me: Barcelona. Once I moved, I took a hiatus to fully focus on refining my style in painting cityscapes. The subjects I like to paint are impulsive but usually come from places I’ve visited. Recently, I’ve found street scenes give a great opportunity to capture the magic of watercolour.…

INSPIRED BY HER PARENT’S ART BOOKS and the occasional visits to London galleries when she was growing up, Lucy McKie decided early on that she was going to be a full-time artist. In hindsight, she realises it was quite the leap of faith as she didn’t have a plan B. Perhaps this meant that she had to make it work. Because although there isn’t a set route to becoming a professional artist, hard work, perseverance and, crucially, learning to accept rejection means she made it her career. Today, she works from a small studio space in her Yorkshire home and credits entering open exhibitions and becoming a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in giving her faith in her work, now bolstered by the fact that her portraits…

LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011) WAS A REMARKABLE PAINTER and a remarkable man. By his own admission, he never did anything he didn’t want to do. His own father described him as a “wild animal”. He lied and he stole. His father-in-law, the sculptor Jacob Epstein described him as “that spiv”. Others described him as untameable, selfish and ruthless. He hung out with the Kray Brothers, notorious East End gangsters. His friends included artists, sex workers, bookies and louche aristocrats. He was pretty louche himself. At one point he had five relationships running concurrently, with different girlfriends. He fathered at least fourteen children, and possibly as many as 40 (he did not acknowledge the majority of them). He loved to gossip about fellow artists and his gambling debts were said to run…

IN SPITE OF FOLLOWING the conventional route of Art School training, my most formative experience was studying the sight size method in Florence, between my Foundation Course and degree in Fine Art. It was under the tuition of Charles H Cecil in the atelier tradition, where students paint alongside tutors. I studied the rigour of accurate observation through working to scale from life, walking back from the easel between each brush stroke for accuracy. I discovered that constant correction allows a freedom from sentimentality and permission to dare, which has informed my approach ever since. Although I have adapted the method to working Alla Prima or wet on wet, the essentials of the discipline remain helpful to get to the essence of my subject. I always work from life, in…

I DEVELOPED MY CURRENT STYLE while studying Illustration at Middlesex University. My work varied from very detailed fineliner drawings, inspired by late 19th century illustration, to large ink drawings created with a bamboo brush, as seen in Japanese ink paintings. It seems fitting that I’ve settled on using a brush pen and ink. My favourite brush pen to use is the Pentel Brush pen as you can take it anywhere due to the ink being in handy cartridges. Using a brush and ink to create smooth-flowing lines helps to give my lines a sense of movement and gesture. You have less control over the accuracy of a line, so it feels less pressured to be exact. I like to use Cass Art Heavyweight cartridge paper because it is smooth, Brilliant…

As a child, I would steal my dad’s watercolours. I also saw my mum writing messages with lipstick to my dad. So, I took her bright red lipstick and painted some of the furniture. I thought it was a great idea; my mum didn’t agree. My passion for painting and drawing didn’t go away with time; the opposite happened, and I am lucky enough to have a supportive family. Every now and then, I create something that I call an ‘anchor piece’. It’s where something clicks; feels like a step forward. The mark-making and applying of pastels [in this piece] have a bit of Paula Rego and Joaquin Mir about them. My colour palette is influenced by Impressionism and Fauvism. I wanted to create something interesting, visually and technically and…

KATE SEGAL New Yorker Kate is a self-taught visual artist, textile designer and illustrator whilst she also has a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Kate’s art incorporates her signature use of uplifting colours and is embedded with themes of nature, spirituality, feminity and the human condition. LUCA INDRACCOLO Born in Naples, Luca left Italy at the age of 19 to start his advertising career, ending up as a creative director for Saatchi & Saatchi London. Realising that fine art was his true calling, he now lives in Malta. He regularly teaches workshops at the Raw Umber Studios in Stroud. LUCY MCKIE Cover artist Lucy was born into an artistic family in Yorkshire. Although she started her career as a portrait painter, her love of still life has developed over the years.…

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This month’s spotlight on a Portfolio Plus member FROM THE AGE OF 11, Christopher James was fascinated with drawing faces and creating a likeness, which gradually gave him the confidence to experiment with colour. His first attempts were with watercolours. “They were in tubes, and I liked the way the paint could be squeezed out straight onto the paper. Then, dripping water over the smears, forming interesting effects and hues.” He received his first commission that same year from a family friend to do a portrait, for which he received £3. “[It] was quite a windfall at the time.” At 12, Van Gogh’s Potato Ears captivated James with “the austere interior and character of the faces,” introducing him to narrative in painting. But it was at 16 that James was…

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SUPPORTED BY MEDIA PARTNERS The esteemed judging panel for The British Art Prize – made up of Scottish artist Bruce McLean, professional artist (and Artists & Illustrators columnist) Jake Spicer, The One Show’s Artist in Residence, Adebanje Alade, the Managing Director of edding, Andy Gutteridge and Niki Browes, the editor of this magazine – have cast their votes and the winners have been decided. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves: the big reveal will be in the next issue of Artists & Illustrators. For now, we’d like to get you involved. This is your chance to vote for your favourite painting from the 50 artworks shortlisted for this year’s competition. To cast your vote and view every artwork up close, simply follow the link above (right). When…

UNTIL JUST BEFORE LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE in 1990, the paintings by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis [1875-1911] were, for decades, the best-kept secret in the Kaunas Museum that bears his name. The sister of the artist, Valerija Čiurlionytė Karužienė [1897-1982], firmly believed that the only way to preserve her brother’s art – mostly painted in egg tempera on cheap cardboard or paper which was slowly fading – was to keep his works shuttered away in Kaunas, not letting them be shown in any other part of the world. Although a national hero in Lithuania, she managed to keep Čiurlionis' art – and the man himself – a secret from the rest of the world for over 70 years. Now, a major exhibition in London will bring together over 100 of his works, with…

THE OLD MASTERS of the Netherlands Renaissance captured such luminosity in their portraits, still lifes and landscapes. These painters were experts in a technique that was lost for centuries and would have remained so had it not been for its revival by Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs. I studied and taught with him and learnt how to capture the magic of the Old Masters. For this portrait, I chose my friend Nicole. Her family came from a combination of Egyptian and Italian aristocracy and I thought she would make an intriguing subject for my portrait. Nicole was an unrepentant chain-smoker, never without a cigarette between her fingers; I wanted to capture that. Rembrandt loved to dress up his sitters in rich velvets and costume hats, as he did himself for his…

MESSAGE OF THE MONTH Theo Parsons I’ve recently picked up acrylic painting again, having done oil painting when I was younger. I’ve always drawn, but with the free time in the summer holidays (I’m 15) I picked up the paintbrush again. My grandad is my inspiration as is my beloved 1961 signet sailing dinghy. When I saw the paintings by Jenny Aitken on the front cover of the last issue, I felt that I had to send my paintings to you! I’ve spoken to other artists at an open studios event and was surprised to find how artists used things like credit cards to create texture which I am interested in experimenting with. Before acrylic painting, I had a few attempts at watercolour and dip pen. This is partly why…