Tom Hallimond, The Holiday We Pretended to Enjoy

2025

Oil on canvas

Unframed 61 × 72.2 cm

"This painting is drawn from a photograph of a holiday that wore the mask of joy. My grandmother was pregnant, yet beneath the surface of sunlit leisure ran a quiet tension, an undercurrent of anxiety about the future. The image captures the fragile balance between performance and reality, the way uncertainty can shadow even the brightest moments."

Tom Hallimond is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores care and lived experience. He completed his practice at Slade School of Fine Art. His work reflects on the quiet resilience and human effort required to adapt during periods of upheaval, investigating the tension between continuity and change. Through this lens, Hallimond examines the often unseen labour of care and the emotional weight carried by both carers and those they support.

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