Milan Ivanič

Milan Ivanič is from former Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Hollar School of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague before coming to this country in 1970. He then lived and worked as a figurative artist in Devon, Sussex, London and Stockton, California, before settling in the North West of England in 1986. His work derives from close engagement with the landscape and culture of the British Isles, while retaining an accent of central Europe . He has had one-man exhibitions at Keele University, Wolfson College, Oxford, The Clyde Bertrand Gallery, Stockton, California, Aston University Arts Centre, The Terrace Gallery, Worthing, and The BBC, Manchester. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, and is in private collections in the UK, the US, Canada, Norway, the Czech Republic and Slovakia . He is included in Buckman’s ‘Artists in Britain since 1945’.

1947: Born in Czechoslovakia

1962 - 1970: Studied at the Hollar School of Art and the Academy of Fine Art in Prague

1970: Moved to the UK

1970 - now: Exhibited in the UK and California

since 1986: Living and working in the North West of England