New year, new paintings
Acrylic on board on 30 x 30cm
This is one of a series of small acrylic paintings Milan has been making this winter. Colour for winter is a gallery showing sixteen of them.
Summer 2024: A week in Lindisfarne
Milan bought a set of Faber-Castell Pitt graphite matt pencils in June, and has been expanding their potential in this series of drawings over the past three months.
In August we stayed on The Holy Island of Lindisfarne with Suzanna and family for a week: a restful, inspiring and happy time.
These and other drawings are included in the selection
Summer drawings: Lindisfarne and more .
Spring walks close to home 2022
Willow flowers
50 x 65 cm Acrylic on paper
In these recent paintings, Milan has been using acrylic so that he doesn’t have to wait long for the paint to dry between layers.
For 12 more paintings from this series, go to Spring into summer 2022 in the GALLERY
Working on paper at the turn of the year
End of winter
Pencil and gouache on paper, 48 x 35 cm
For twelve more pictures in this series, go to
Year Turning 2021 – 2022
in the GALLERY
A winter staying at home
Over Wyresdale 2020
Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm
From September 2020 to March 2021 Milan followed CoVid restrictions and stayed at home, walking and drawing locally in places within seven miles of home. In the studio he painted small works in acrylic on canvas or board, derived mainly from these walks. I’ve put a selection in the Gallery: ‘Keeping local’: paintings 2020 – 2021 . There’ll be some more on the new GavaganArt website which is coming online soon: I’ll blog again when it is launched.
Winter walking-drawing 2020
Ink and oil pastel
I’ve added three more walking-drawings (this and two others) in which Milan is using ink and oil pastel,
to the gallery Around Lancaster, Winter 2020 – 2021.
(Changed the name of the gallery a bit too.)
Winter walking-drawing 2020
Restrictions have kept us close to home these last two months, so we have been out to familiar local places, Milan finding new compositions to capture the experience, and developing them into pictures at home.
For more drawings like these, go to Around Lancaster, December 2020 in the GALLERY
‘From the Elbe to the Lune’ at GavaganArt in Settle
Here’s the announcement of the opening of the exhibition:
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Milan Ivanič
From the Elbe to the Lune
9 November – 21 December 2019
Milan Ivanič
From the Elbe to the Lune
9 November – 21 December 2019
Image: Milan Ivanič Autumn. Oil on canvas.
You and your friends are invited
to celebrate the opening of our new exhibition.
Saturday 9 November 2019
12 noon – 3 pm
OPENING HOURS
After 9 Nov, the gallery will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays,
11 – 4pm, until 21 Dec
Milan Ivanič has lived in Lancaster since 1986 when his wife Roz started working at Lancaster University. Originally from the former Czechoslovakia, Milan had a formal art school training in Prague, at the Hollar School of Art and the prestigious Prague Academy of Fine Arts.
Milan has immersed himself in the landscape of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria and for thirty years he has been out almost every day, drawing and painting. The River Ribble flowing through the limestone dales in Yorkshire and the River Lune in Lancashire, regularly feature in Milan’s paintings.
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