Julia Bacha - TED

A wonderful talk from Julia Bacha at the TED conference. Wouldn't you just love to see the mainstream media cover stories like her's instead of having to search them out and dig them out. What a huge impact for good it would have around the world. Julia Bacha says everything I would like to be able to articulate, but with so much more grace and compassion.

A short update on painting.

As of June 2011, I now have very little time to paint, I am focusing on drawing at the moment, mostly portraits, still life and life drawing, something I had been neglecting. I believe that my neglect of drawing, in particular life drawing, which I believe is key to any progress you make as an Artist, even if your work is abstract, was responsible for the creative block I experienced recently. The block has now been removed thanks to a wonderful healer who worked with me, but what I envisage for my work is very different to what it was, a bit like stepping into the unknown...again! But the journey will start with regular drawing and I am sure that as long as I can keep my mind/ego out of the way, it will develop and evolve just fine. I will continue to post my work from time to time, but not as regularly as I did before April 2011.

Much love

Hani