NEL IVANCIC

 The Courtyard Gallery is pleased to welcome back one of our favorite guest artists, Nel Ivancich, of the Pinyon area in California, between Idyllwild and Palm Desert.

Below are Nel's latest paintings, currently on exhibit in the Courtyard Gallery:

      A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Nel now resides in Mountain Center, California where she paints full time. She received her BFA and MFA degrees from The University of Utah and was an associate instructor in its art department for eight years. She also taught at The Salt Lake School of Interior Design.

            Nel was a member of The Utah Art Council's Visual Advisory Panel and a founding member of Pleiades, a women's art group in Salt Lake City.

       Nel now resides in a high desert mountain community in Southern California where nature and "the sound of raven's wings" inspire her work. Some of her paintings include sand collected from the U.S., Petra, Jordan and other distant lands.

      She was awarded the Grand Prize for the Bangladesh Independence Day competition, in which artists from all continents were represented. Additionally, Nel's painting, Earth Wave, in which she incorporated sand from several nations, is the cover image for a book of global poetry launched in Dhaka, Bangladesh by the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

       Nel is one of fourteen member artists of the international collaboration Connecting Art. These artists met each other at the 2003 Florence Biennale and have since exhibited their work together in various international venues, including Croatia, Greece, Reunion Island and, in 2005, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

          Her work is exhibited widely in Utah and in private collections around the country, including Utah, California, Arizona, and Washington, DC.          Here is a link to Nel's website where you can explore her work in depth:  http://www.nelivancich.com/