Since ever I do work on portrait of people close to me: mostly family and friends. This occasional distraction within my own “program-work” becomes more and more regular now. Therefore I paint those I love, admire and feel related to or those I miss, like my grandparents who recently passed away. Self portraits are being part of this as well.
Michal Korman: Self portrait at the café where they played the Doors, oil on canvas, 40×30 cm, Brussels 2009
Michal Korman: Self portrait at the café where they played the Doors, oil on canvas, 40×30 cm, Brussels 2009
Michal Korman: Maxim, oil on canvas, 41×30 cm, Paris 2018
Michal Korman: Maxim, oil on canvas, 41×30 cm, Paris 2018
Michal Korman: Zoe, oil on canvas, 41×30 cm, Paris 2018
Michal Korman: Zoe, oil on canvas, 41×30 cm, Paris 2018
Michal Korman: Lea, oil on canvas, 40×30 cm, Paris 2019
Michal Korman: Lea, oil on canvas, 40×30 cm, Paris 2019
June 2015 and 2016. I got to Weligama on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, with a delivery of paintings the owner Anna Egorkina asked me for. Some of my paintings and prints were previously acquired by owner of Eraeliya Villas and Gardens and I was delighted when she asked me for more painting to be done for one of the superior rooms in the main villa: Samaya. The orderer’s idea was to have a three round paintings hung up under the roof, so they’d overlook the space of the chamber. I’ve decided to work with animal species endemitic to the island. Six weeks after the primary sketches, the paintings were drying all over my livingroom, and waiting to be wrapped and shipped to Eraeliya Villas and Gardens – a little piece of paradise on Earth. They joined my other decorative panels: “Peafowl paintings” in the lobby and “Foo dog paintings” in Nelum villa.
Michal Korman: Erealiya Villas & Gardens
Eraeliya Villas and Garden, Lobby in main Villa
Michal Korman: Peafowl paintings, 2x oil on canvas 140×70 cm, Paris 2014
Michal Korman: Villa Nelum where my two small “chinoiserie” paintings are places at the entrance of a building.
Michal Korman: Shishi (female), oil and golden powder on canvas 72×60 cm, 2013 Paris
Michal Korman: Shishi (male), oil and golden powder on canvas 72×60 cm, 2013 Paris
Villa Bawana, dispositions of my works, photo: Eraeliya Villas
Michal Korman: working on tondo
Michal Korman: Sigiriya (A Blue Magpie of Ceylon), oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens
Michal Korman: Anuradhapura (detail of work in progress), oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens
Michal Korman: Anuradhapura (A Golden palm civet), oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens
Michal Korman: Kandy (A Sri-lankan grey hornbill), oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens
Michal Korman: Sigiriya, oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens
Michal Korman: Kandy, oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens
Michal Korman: Anuradhapura, oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens
Samaya Room, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens, photo: Andrew Torn
The other room on the same floor: Ramaya, also has a painting that I’ve made in 2015, it serves as a cover of the TV board. The subject is young Rama during an evening puja in a pond surrounded by tropical flora:
Michal Korman: Young Rama at the pond, oil on canvas, 2 compositions of 75×90 cm each, Weligama 2015, Eraeliya Villas and Gardens
Michal Korman: Young Rama at the pond, oil on canvas, 2 compositions of 75×90 cm each, Weligama 2015, Eraeliya Villas and Gardens
