It was an intimate healing art workshop where loved ones of victims from the April 26 Lapu-Lapu day tragedy were present.

The aunt of Jendhel Sico, one of the 11 people killed in the tragedy, became emotional as she shared the painting she created with OMNI News.

“I miss Jendhel so much”, she says. “We love to draw. We love to paint. She (Jendhel) has painted the coconut tree.”

Led by award-winning Filipino Canadian artist Chito Maravilla, the attendees gathered at a private residence in Surrey, B.C. and were guided on how to express emotions through painting.

“It’s an outlet,” Maravilla says. “To paint, to put what you have in mind. It can be a release.”

Alejandro Samper lost both his parents, Daniel and Glitza Maria, and his sister, Glitza Daniela, in the tragedy. He painted a bird

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