Jeweled Gold Tears

  • Artist

    Haleh Mashian

  • Size

    60 x 60 in.

  • Medium

    Mixed Media on Wood

About the Artwork

Haleh Mashian’s “Jeweled Gold Tears” is a striking mixed media painting that transforms raw emotion into a shimmering testament to resilience and beauty. This artwork reinterprets sorrow as something luminous, where tear-shaped forms—layered in rich gold, bronze, and amber—glow with a sense of opulence and depth.

Through heavy impasto techniques, Mashian elevates the painting’s tactile dimension, creating a surface that appears fossilized in time, like sacred relics of past emotions. Each golden tear stands distinct, reflecting light differently based on the angle of view, ensuring an evolving and immersive experience. This interplay of gold and texture makes the piece an ideal statement artwork for luxury interiors, bringing both emotional depth and sophisticated allure to any space.

Gold, often associated with wealth, divinity, and transformation, takes on profound significance in this context. Here, tears are no longer symbols of loss but of endurance and reflection—reminders that even in sorrow, there is a golden truth waiting to be uncovered. The painting’s rhythmic repetition of shapes mirrors the meditative nature of emotions, reinforcing the idea that pain, when honored, can be transmuted into something precious.

“Jeweled Gold Tears” is a complex abstract painting—it’s a powerful meditation on emotional alchemy, where vulnerability is redefined as strength. Collectors and interior designers drawn to statement pieces with deep meaning and radiant aesthetics will find this artwork an exquisite addition to their collection.

About the artist



As a painter and creative expressionist, Mashian's abstract works reveal her appreciation of color theory, compositional form, and studying positive and negative space. Working in mixed media and using various techniques from collage to impasto, a repeated layering and application of paint, Mashian's dynamic pieces range from smaller artworks that can be arranged together to large-scale paintings. Her large-paneled paintings have been exhibited nationally in Los Angeles, Miami, and other art enclaves and are included in private collections in the United States and abroad.
Regular price $10,000.00