Colorful painting of six people in formal attire sitting around a table with a cake, against a red curtain backdrop.
Tom Hallimond, The First Empty Chair
Tom Hallimond, The First Empty Chair

Tom Hallimond, The First Empty Chair

Regular price £791.67

2025

Oil on canvas

Unframed 61 × 72.2 cm

"This painting marks the first time my grandad felt absence in a tangible way - a friend who did not return to the table, the first empty chair. At that moment, it was a quiet, almost imperceptible shift, but it carried a weight that would echo through his life. Now, at 98, he has watched absence grow, fill the spaces of those he loved. This work captures that first whisper of loss, before it became a constant presence."

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