A Cork-born painter working primarily in abstraction, Tom Climent’s work is most recognisable through his subtle arrangement of colour and tonality. A graduate from Crawford College of Art and Design in 1994, he established himself early as an artist-to-be-watched with his sell-out graduate show causing a stir in Cork’s art world. Since then he has continually evolved as painter, including a move from large sized works to include a smaller scale, working on panel as well as showing a greater emphasis on architectural forms more recently. Figurative, urban and landscape subjects stand at the centre of Climent’s work. Focusing on the creation of structured space, while investigating the boundaries between abstraction and representation, his most recent works are investigations through the medium of paint. Climent draws on landscape, natural phenomena and types of structures for inspiration, but also overlaps memory and feelings in his work; construction and deconstruction becoming simultaneous tools in his process of creation. More classical influences however include the old Masters, ranging from Caravaggio to Vermeer and Velazquez. Especially in his use of chiaroscuro is Previous solo shows include Between Chance and Rhyme at the Hunt Museum, New Paintings at the Fenton Gallery, A Light Enters the Land at the BlueLeaf Gallery, Pure at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dust at Garter Lane Arts Centre, Hansel’s House at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dancing Parade at the Triskel Arts Centre, M.A by Research at the Wandesford Quay Gallery, Final State at the BlueLeaf Gallery and most recently Vessels at The Luan Gallery. He is a recipient of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship 2016, Cork City Council Individual Artists Bursary Award 2014, Working Art Grant 2014, Tony O’Malley Travel Award, Victor Treacy Award and a Department of Foreign Affairs Travel Award. His work is in the collections of the OPW State Art Collection, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Irish National Treasury Management Agency, University College Cork, University College Dublin, Smurfit Business School, AIB Bank, the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, NCB Stockbrokers, Cork Opera House, Cork City Council, Cork Institute of Technology, the US Embassy in Dublin, Deloitte, Investec and numerous private collections in Ireland, UK, Spain, France, USA & Canada