Recent work by Milan Ivanic
Author: MilanIvanicArt
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
Liquid Lunch: The Sutton siblings with wasp
Lanzarote drawings and watercolours
We stayed in Oasis de Nazaret, near Teguise, with John and Erica Malaiperuman for eleven days. We were at a villa with a magnificent view of Las Montañas del Fuego in Timanfaya National Park. We went to our usual favourite places: the Jardin de Cactus, the Museo de Agricola – el Patio, Cesar Manrique’s home and studio, La Caldera de los Cuervos, El Golfo, the small fields where farmers are cultivating the edge of the lava flow, and of course, the volcanoes themselves. And the villa has a heated pool!
Milan went with ideas of paintings he would like to develop when he came home. He took only A5 sheets of paper, pencils and watercolours with him. With these he did 76 little paintings while we were there, and came home with a lot more ideas for paintings than he had when he set out.
Here’s a slideshow of 15 of his Lanzarote drawings and watercolours.
The exhibition is at the King Street Studios, Lancaster. There are 50 paintings and drawings in the exhibition, ranging from early work dated 1969 while Milan was at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, to a wide variety of recent work. The landscape associated with the River Lune and its estuary into Morecambe Bay feature in many of the paintings and drawings.
Terraced gardens at Caylus, Tarn et Garonne 2002 Oil on canvas 92 x 71 cm
Tree rooted in rock 2010 Pen and ink. 100 x 80 cm
Lone fir – above Tarn Howes in The Lake District 2010 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm
I’m making this the main site for Milan’s work, and this is the new address for it.
Last weekend we went to Gresgarth Hall Garden. We aim to go there about three times a year, and especially in May.
Here are some of Milan’s paintings on Gresgarth subjects from the last two years.
