Our level 6 lecturer recommended within a talk recently that we know about Turps Banana and following this lead, I looked at the website www.turpsbanana.com and discovered a painting magazine available twice a year that is written for painters, by painters. It is refreshing as it is UK based, relevant to what is going on in contemporary art today and features a number of articles on practicing artists with the conversation being very indepth about their practice. It may be a niche product but its bang on the money for me and it is great to read something helpful and encouraging dealing with the issues a painter has with their inner issues of concept and the paint itself. There is none of the lifestyle and advertising features that you find in other magazines. So more than happy to recommend them to anyone interested in painting. I ordered issue 13 and 14 which is out now and have managed to borrow 2 earlier back issues so is all good. Sadly not earlier issue featuring Peter Doig but you cannot have it all.
