Fields of Marks

About the book 

Fields of Marks is about of the life of the artist, Milan Ivanič, told as much through pictures as through words. It begins with his childhood as ‘the boy who couldn’t stop drawing’ in the 1950s in the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia, and his life-changing decision to leave in 1970 for a future with the author in Britain. Roz Ivanič blends the story of her and Milan’s lives with details of his working practices as an artist. Every page of the narrative is illustrated with Milan’s paintings, drawings and prints: an effusion of marks, lines and colours bringing a vivid immediacy to the words on the page. 

About the author 

Before writing Fields of Marks, Roz Ivanič worked in secondary, further and higher education, specialising in the teaching of writing. She has previously published books and articles about her research on identity in academic writing, and on everyday literacies as resources for learning.

Hardback

ISBN: 9781739433819

288pp

285mm x 285mm 

Publication Date: November 2025