Healing Through Tears

“Healing Through Tears” — 80 x 70 cm Mixed Media on Canvas

Healing Through Tears was created in the quiet after losing my dad — in that raw, aching space where the world feels too loud and too empty at the same time. This 80 x 70 cm mixed-media piece carries the truth of those first nights and mornings, when the only thing that eased the weight in my chest was letting the tears fall.

Layers of acrylic, soft washes, and textured marks were built slowly, often between tears, until the canvas began to hold what I could not say out loud. The figure that formed is both me and every person who has loved and lost — fragile, luminous, and still standing. The gentle drips running through the piece aren’t just marks; they are the moments I allowed myself to feel everything, trusting that grief is just love with nowhere to go.

This painting is my journey back to breath: the realisation that crying isn’t breaking, it’s cleansing. That healing doesn’t arrive all at once — it comes in small, tender waves, one tear at a time.

Healing Through Tears is a tribute to my dad, to grief, and to the quiet strength that rises when love teaches us how to let go and hold on at the same time.