Recent work by Milan Ivanic
Author: MilanIvanicArt
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.
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.)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
One of the paintings that Milan will be exhibiting with the King Street Studios collective
at the Silver Saplings site on the Silverdale and Arnside Art and Craft Trail
from 1pm Fri 28 June to 5.30pm Sun 30 June
On Friday evening Milan was invited to join seven other artists to draw and paint a cellist while she rehearsed for her performance the following day.
The concert on Saturday 18th May was part of the Music in the Wood series of music events at Lucy’s Barn. At the concert one work by each artist would be sold in aid of Cruse Bereavement Care Cumbria.
Milan did the painting ‘Li Lu rehearsing‘ for the concert, and he did the drawing ‘After the rehearsal’ from memory back in the studio.
Auntie Pat’s garden: looking out 2019 Acrylic 70 x 70 cm
Many of Milan’s pictures are of gardens: Auntie Pat’s garden, Levens Hall garden, Gresgarth garden, our garden, and others.
When Roy and Kath were choosing pictures for their exhibition at King Street Studios,
they made ‘Gardens‘ one of the themes of the exhibition.
Here are the ten pictures of gardens included in the exhibition
The last opening days for the exhibition
Milan Ivanic: 50 years of Line and Paint
will be Friday and Saturday this week, 3 and 4 May 2019
