KLIMCZYK Tomasz - Zielono mi

Tomasz Klimczyk was born in 1967 in Kraków. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, from the Department of Graphic Arts, where he earned his diploma in the lithography workshop under the supervision of Prof. Roman Żygulski in 1994.

He studied painting in the studio of Prof. Zbysław Maciejewski. In 1994 he received an award in the national competition “Landscape in Contemporary Painting.” In 2003 and 2009 he was awarded in the national competition “Triennale with Still Life.” He participated in more than 100 group exhibitions in Poland, the USA, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Japan.

Participant in numerous plein air painting camps and symposia both in the country and abroad, including France, Greece, Germany, Slovenia, India, Nepal, Tibet. His works are in private collections domestically and internationally, including the painting collection of the city of Arras in France, Tilburg in the Netherlands, the Georg von Opel Collection in Eschborn, Germany, and the Miyauchy Foundation in Tokyo, Japan. In 2019 he received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.


In his landscapes he often transports us to Southern Europe. Lofty cypress trees, blooming Bougainvillea, and intriguing architecture reveal the climate of hot France, Greece, or Italy. Nature is Tomasz Klimczyk's greatest source of inspiration. In his latest series of paintings, he engages with it without any distance. He creates images as if woven from pure detail. Leaves, leaflets, little leaves, the outlines of canopies and twigs. Yet you will not find botanical precision in them. All these simplified fragments of plants form an astonishing spectrum of colors and shapes. They create a work of art.