ADJ
- gifted, great, talented
- distinguished, established, famous, leading, major, successful, well-known
- aspiring, budding, up-and-coming
- struggling, unknown
- amateur, professional
- self-taught
- serious
- He is a serious artist, and totally committed to his work
- local
- female, woman
- male
- creative
- real, true (figurative)
- My husband is a real artist in the kitchen
- abstract, avant-garde, commercial, conceptual, figurative, fine, graffiti, graphic, landscape, make-up, pavement, performance, pop/popular, scenic, visual, war, watercolour, wildlife
- contemporary, living, modern, nineteenth-century, etc.
VERB + ARTIST
- commission
- In 1942 the city commissioned war artist John Piper to paint its bombed cathedral
- feature
- an exhibition featuring wildlife artist Emma Gray
ARTIST + VERB
- create sth, draw (sth), paint (sth), produce sth
- an artist who paints in oils
- work
- artists who work in different media
- exhibit sth, show sth
- Local watercolour artists are currently exhibiting their work in the town hall
PHRASES
- an artist in residence
- the new artist in residence at the Tate Gallery
ADJ
- guest
- The Blue Note Quartet will be the guest artists tomorrow night
- solo
- recording
- cabaret, escape, mime, music hall, rap, reggae, trapeze, variety
VERB + ARTIST
- feature
- The festival featured artists such John Mclaughlin and Russell Malone