Proljece (Spring) (2016) Painting by Tihomir Ivancan

TIHOMIR IVANČAN was born on 4th of November 1980 in Rijeka. His parents are from peaceful and tame land called Podravina, from little villages near Koprivnica where Croatian naive art was born in the beginning of the 20th century. From his early childhood days Tihomir feels strong connection and love towards naive art and finds inspiration in his enormous admiration towards nature and all its beauty. His first lessons about painting on glass Tihomir gets from Mijo Kovačić and Ivan Večenaj, the pionner in Croatian naive art – glass painting.. Tihomir is a member of world famous society called Hlebinska udruga slikara i kipara naive since 1999., but he starts painting in 1996. when he coloured his first glass with a motive of a little crumbly house. Tihomir, as a young artist of the last generation of naive artists, is different in juxtaposition with other artists because of his unique theme field and motives. His paintings are born from his great gratitude that he feels for the nature and because of that his paintingsare like a dream: sometimes mystical, sometimes romantic, sometimes sad or happy. The themes of his paintings are mostly connected with people and nature and the times when people and nature were one. The motives are various but mostly he paints hunters, fishermans, lost kids in the forests, tired peasants resting in the field, long hard winters, sad autumns and worm springs. His art expression is a synthesis of his love for his parentage that is Podravina and his love for his home that is this seascape. Life between this two completely different worlds resulted in his rising from the typical perspective that naive art represents and finding his own remarkable art expression which is based on his immense imagination and creative skills. He had about 15 collective exibitions in : Madrid, gallery Eboli, Bruxelles, Katowice, Moscow, Hlebine, Koprivnica, St. Jakob in Defferegen,... and many self – contained exibitions in Novi Vinodolski, Crkvenica, Krapina, Zagreb, Koprivnica and many times in Rijeka. From 2010. he is a member of Croatian naive art society (Hrvatsko društvo naivnih umjetnika) in Zagreb.

• Nationality: CROATIA
• Date of birth : 1980
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Croatian Contemporary Artists