A deaf artist in Hong Kong, Apple Tong Wing-yin, is 'painting to heal herself' after losing all her life's work in a devastating fire in November 2025. The fire destroyed her apartment and all her artwork, including awards and previous projects.

For Hong Kong-based artist Apple Tong Wing-yin, Wang Fuk Court has always been more than a home address. It was a library of her life’s work. Tong, a prominent deaf illustrator and graphic designer who communicates through what she calls her “silent language” of art, kept the many canvases that spoke for her inside her flat in the Tai Po housing estate. In November last year, that library was reduced to ash in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest fires. She lost everything – her awards, her backlog of.....