Author Archives: tomcliment

Carissa Farrell | Introduction to Aspect | A catalogue accompanying the solo exhibition at Solomon Fine Art | 2018 Aspect continues Tom Climent’s exploration of the diminishing boundaries between landscape and abstraction by travelling further into fictional terrains of hybrid mountains, hills, uplands and plateaus. In previous groupings these features of the temperate Irish countrysideContinue reading “Carissa Farrell’s catalogue introduction to the exhibition Aspect at Solomon Fine Art | 2018”

Carissa Farrell | Introduction to Aspect | A catalogue accompanying the solo exhibition at Solomon Fine Art | 2018 Aspect continues Tom Climent’s exploration of the diminishing boundaries between landscape and abstraction by travelling further into fictional terrains of hybrid mountains, hills, uplands and plateaus. In previous groupings these features of the temperate Irish countrysideContinue reading “Carissa Farrell’s review of Latitudes at the Dunamaise Arts Centre in The VAI news sheet | February 2018”

Cristín Leach | Review of Latitudes | Dunamaise Arts Centre | The Sunday Times | February 2018 Cork-Based painter Tom Climent has been honing his approach to abstraction for more than 20 years. This show which features fantastical landscapes in which mountains and rocky outcrops take the form of multifaceted geometric structures. They sit underContinue reading “Cristín Leach’s review of Latitudes at the Dunamaise Arts Centre in The Sunday Times | February 2018”

Niall MacMonagle | What Lies Beneath | Meridian by Tom Climent | The Sunday Independent | 2016 The sun, that 4.6 billion-year-old, far-away ( 149 million kilometres away ) burning star, and now 300 degrees hotter than it was when it was born doesn’t always deliver. Irish summers are hit-and-miss; ones, when the sun shone all theContinue reading “Niall MacMonagle’s article What Lies Beneath on the painting Meridian by Tom Climent in The Sunday Independent | 2016”

Mark Ewart | Introduction to In its Reflection | A catalogue accompanying the solo exhibition at Solomon Fine Art | 2016 Tom Climent is an archetypal ‘painters’ painter’. His work evolves from an intensive process of constructing and de-constructing surfaces, until a harmonious balance of colour and texture is achieved. And like any artist who pays seriousContinue reading “Mark Ewart’s catalogue introduction to the exhibition In its Reflection at Solomon Fine Art | 2016”