Tomás Vale

Image: detail from John Frederick Kensett, Twilight on the Sound, Darien, Connecticut, 1872, The Met Open Access (CC0). Placeholder for the artist’s own image.

Tomás Vale

Image: detail from John Frederick Kensett, Twilight on the Sound, Darien, Connecticut, 1872, The Met Open Access (CC0). Placeholder for the artist’s own image.

Tomás Vale

Image: detail from John Frederick Kensett, Twilight on the Sound, Darien, Connecticut, 1872, The Met Open Access (CC0). Placeholder for the artist’s own image.

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About the artist

Practice

Painter

Based in

Porto

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Tomás Vale works between Porto and the Atlantic coast, painting clouds as evidence of weather that has already passed. He keeps a written log beside every canvas: wind, time and temperature.

His talk, Clouds as evidence, takes place in Room 3 during Amber hour.

Selected works

Log, Matosinhos, 14 March

2026

Oil on canvas

Front coming in

2025

Oil on canvas

Grey morning, Foz

2024

Oil on paper

At The Meridian

Simon Denis, Cloud study (early evening)

Amber hour

On view now

12 September 2026 to 18 January 2027

Poster: Simon Denis, Cloud study (early evening), ca. 1786–1806. The Met Open Access (CC0).

Talks and openings

Where to meet the painter

Thu 15 Oct

19:00

Clouds as evidence: a talk with Tomás Vale

Room 3, free with ticket

Thu 15 Oct

19:00

Clouds as evidence: a talk with Tomás Vale

Room 3, free with ticket

Thu 15 Oct

19:00

Clouds as evidence: a talk with Tomás Vale

Room 3, free with ticket

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