It is over a year that I didn’t print any gumoil prints. Moving to Ireland and losing my atelier due to new living accommodations, changed a lot in my artistic life. Recently, I felt that I need to go back to the roots and to work once again with all my fav developing methods, one […]

    I have returned from Zagreb a long time ago. It was a short trip, just to open my exhibition and do what else needed to be done. My exhibition about Alternative photography was officially closed yesterday. The goal that I set to myself for that exhibition was: “to remind art lovers and public […]

Hi guys! It’s that time of the year – EXHIBITION! Location: Zagreb, Croatia Gallery: Permanenta Address: Preradoviceva 44/1 Dates: 5.11.-19.11. Opening Day: 5.11. at 7 pm   SaveSave SaveSave

  Ireland in gum by Lidija Ivanek SiLaI am continuing my work with this interesting paper and intentionally cutting off washing time, intervening with brushes and water spray to get desirable look. Eventually I will end up with decent portfolio that I intend to post as such on my front page. It is only one […]

Working on a new paper, Bockingford HP, which is made with woollen particles, makes me rethink the process I was comfortable with. Paper is a vital piece and the “dance” between pigment and paper is what it makes the final image. Wool gives softness in certain areas, somewhat haze look.     …working with gum […]

  When I found watercolour paper for my painting projects, like this one down, I decide to use it for gum BI and the result is extraordinary! Only one layer on the Muckross House photography and without sizing… ME HAPPY 🙂 SaveSave

Just finished and left to dry. Volkswagen Bus parked in Kinsale… three layers of watercolour paint with gum bichromate  

Alice again, gum bichromate, 4 layers Alice again, gum bichromate, 4 layers   SaveSave

By Lidija Ivanek SiLa Some five years ago I visited Rovinj, Croatia. There I had an interesting conversation with an artist and gallery owner. She said to me that the good years of selling art are gone once again. That she is an artist for 30 or so years now and that she survived war […]

Ireland, especially Kinsale, in Summer is like a big botanical garden filled with flowers. My garden is arranged from bushes overflowed with big purple balls of Hydrangeas. This little still life that I arranged with yellow background from thick curtain (curtains are used to shed windows in Ireland…they do not use blinds) mean to me more of the […]