Author: MilanIvanicArt

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.

50 Years of Line and Paint

Opening event: Saturday 6 April 6 – 8 pm

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.

For a selection of work included in the exhibition,
see 50 years of Line and Paint.

Hanging Day, King Street Studios Gallery 2

Wildwood exhibition

Some of Milan’s work was included in the wonderful ‘Wildwood’ exhibition at GavaganArt in Settle, November 2017 – January 2018.

These are the three pictures he sold there:

Terrace

Terraced gardens at Caylus, Tarn et Garonne 2002 Oil on canvas 92 x 71 cm

RootedInRock

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

ivanic.uk

I’m making this the main site for Milan’s work, and this is the new address for it.

Summer at la Barrière, nr Caylus, France

For fifteen days, Milan drew in pen and ink,
and seven of us cooked and ate and drank,
and laughed and told stories and basked in the sun,
and gazed at the beauty of the garden and of the old building,
and of the valley of la Bonnette beyond.
On the sixteenth day, Milan added colour to one of his pictures.




: La Barrière, mixed media on paper, 38 x 56 cm

Memories of Fife in July 2014

This time two years ago it was hot and sunny weather for our visit to the harbours and fishing villages of East Fife with Janet Robinson.
Milan worked on drawings which he developed into a series of Coasts and Harbours from different parts of the British Isles, some of which are here

Harbours 08 — St Monans and Firth of Forth

Gresgarth Garden in May

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.

‘The History Men’ in Belfast

Milan’s portrait, The History Men, which was selected for the 2015 BP Portrait Award exhibition, is now at The Ulster Museum, Belfast, until 12 June, 2016. Having been on tour for a year in London, Scotland and Belfast, in July it will finally return to Lancaster, and into the possession of Kay Schiller, the ‘history man’ on the right of the picture.

Historyweb — *The History Men* Acrylic on canvas, 2014

Milan in Australia

P1100058 — *Highway stop near Lesueur National Park,* Watercolour, Feb 2016

In February – March 2016, Milan was in Western Australia and wherever we went, he took A5 pieces of watercolour paper, and drew in pencil. In the evenings, he painted them.
Here’s a selection of 15