Michal S. Těhel

I was born on June 4, 1975 in Ústí nad Orlicí. I spent my entire childhood in the picturesque town of Brandýs nad Orlicí, where many important personalities such as Jan Amos Komenský lived. I studied electrical engineering and actually I didn't think I could paint until 1994. I tried painting for the first time "in the green" and right after my compulsory military service I bought my first oil paints and started to create. First I learned the techniques of the Flemish masters by painting copies of their masterpieces.

The more I fell under the spell of painting, the more I searched for the method that best suited my vision of the world. The moment I came across the works of Salvatore Dali and after trying to copy some of them, the decision was made. These paintings, which in their clean lines and inexhaustible shades of colour express not only the mood but also the thought or action of the painter - this is my vision of the surrealist world. I quickly moved on to my own ideas and works. The less happy periods of my life are all reflected in my work, and their bleakness is evident in the paintings from the four-year period from 2006 to 2010. Most of my paintings are therefore surrealist works, but thanks to my degree in electrical engineering, technology is really close to my heart, so I also create works that are realistic in the form of various paintings of cars and especially motorcycles.