Cork artist Tom Climent: 'I'm trying to capture or create light within the paintings'
Tom Climent at work on one of his pieces.
Tom Climent, Pilgrim Pilgrim is a fitting title for Tom Climent’s new exhibition of paintings at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin. There is always a spiritual element to his work, a sense that he is pushing forward on some sort of quest or journey.
Climent is based in Cork, living in Blackrock and working from the same studio in the city centre he has used for the past thirty years. There’s a storage space on the ground floor, and a narrow wooden staircase that leads upstairs to where he works. “It’s good to be in town,” he says. “If I need anything in the art shop, it’s close by. Or I can meet somebody for a coffee or go for lunch.”
