Tom Kosmo is a graphics artist situated in Bergen in Norway. His work is mainly within linocut and etching. His work can be viewed at his studio in Nygårdsgaten 29, and until 16.nov in Høstutstillingen in Oslo and Stavanger.

"We are the first generation after the world wars that have a little innocence to us. We can allow ourselves to be humorous and dream. We can allow ourselves decadence and metaphysics. We can be oblivious to the political instrumentation of art, and retreat to our own imagination. 

There is a fine line between nostalgic cliché and ominous archetype I try to go along. The three most important influences on my artistic development are my childhood, popular culture and renaissance art. Art to me is a way of making order in the chaos of life, and at the same time a parallel reality in which everything is possible. I reinvent reality according to my own conscious and subconscious values, a symbolic language. The esthetics I utilize are similar to classical art where everything is strictly ordered, but is infused with a childish mentality. A meeting between classical discipline and the cartoon, so to speak."