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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.

‘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


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.

The Lune at Bullbeck

The Lune with Brookhouse Church 1992 Tempera 20 x 50 cm

We go to the Bullbeck car park at least once a week, to walk along the river and the disused railway there. The Lune at Bullbeck (in GALLERY) is a selection of Milan’s work from those walks, and some are from the car park itself. We always eat at the excellent fast food hut there; Milan works on drawings while I order. Several of these pictures will be shown in an exhibition at the GavaganArt Gallery in Settle, 9 November – 21 December 2019.

‘The Art of Music’ exhibition at King Street Studios

Glenn Easley 2000 Oil on board 53 x 41 cm with frame

Milan will have some paintings in the ‘Art of Music’ exhibition, starting next Friday, 13 Sept. (see details below). They will be selected from this picture of the piano tuner who came to our house while Suzanna was learning the piano, and the paintings of three musicians below. Milan drew them from the auditorium while they were playing, and painted them in the studio in the following days.

  • Li Lu 2019 Acrylic
    66 x 56 cm
  • Pip Hall 2019 Acrylic
    56 x 40 cm
  • Leila Josefowicz 2001 Oil 63 x 43 cm

There will be works by over 30 artists in the exhibition.
If you live locally, do come to the Opening, or on any Friday or Saturday until 19th Oct.