Hala's World of Colour in Acrylics

Welcome to my online gallery! I love colour and exploring the infinite world of possibilities that painting offers. Enjoy!

I get immense pleasure out of capturing faces and landscapes (real or imagined), and sometimes allowing the paint itself to dictate the shapes and patterns that take hold on the canvas. My renewed connection with art has transformed me. Brought me back to my roots, so to speak. I owe a great deal to my art teacher, Susan Ashbrook, for easing me into acrylic painting. Painting is what I do after wo

05/09/2026

05/15/2022

The path back to our homeland can no longer be traced. Maps have long since been redrawn, and the footprints that marked our road to exile 74 years ago have been washed away by the cruel hands of those who came to displace us. May 15 marks yet another year of dispossession and exile for Palestinians. The day commemorating the 'Nakba' - the Catastrophe - is a painful reminder of a collective trauma, and a bittersweet anniversary of yearning for what once was, and may never be again....

The path back to our homeland The path back to our homeland can no longer be traced. Maps have long since been redrawn, and the footprints that marked our road to exile 74 years ago have been washed away by the cruel hands of t…

02/11/2022

The Fall What happens when a leaf loses its last grip and lets go, falling to the ground? Does it perish forever? Or is it reborn in some way through the earth that is fed with its decay? Does it fall from …