Summer Daze Leftover Christmas displays still line the street, the fairy lights filling the warm night with a sense of joy. We fall asleep to the sound of laughter and
My name is Hannah Coleman-Smith. I have been creating since I was a little kid, and I have always been drawn to creating art depicting women, especially in nature. Art is important to me because it is one of the first forms of human expression and protestation. I make art because I want a person to feel at home in it and to feel seen. To be able to feel beautiful or to feel as though their cultural identity and hardships have been acknowledged.
Nick Barry is a lifelong jotter of ideas, scribbler of jokes and sketcher of Dawgs. Nick’s art-form lives in a colourful, hand-drawn world where reside the iconic ‘Dragon-Dawgs’.
Write just one word. Then another. Write another. Draw that line. Mark that page. Make a dot, a squiggle, an imperfect circle. So what if it’s wonky? So what if it looks more like a weird elephant’s ear? Play that chord. Sing that note. Sing another. Sing three in a row. Start something. Do it. In the words of avant-garde composer John Cage: ‘Begin anywhere.’
The Common Ground is a page
dedicated to expression.
Do you have something you’d
like to share?
Summer Daze Leftover Christmas displays still line the street, the fairy lights filling the warm
My name is Hannah Coleman-Smith. I have been creating since I was a little kid, and I have always been drawn to creating art depicting women, especially in nature. Art is important to me because it is one of the first forms of human expression and protestation. I make art because I want a person to feel at home in it and to feel seen. To be able to feel beautiful or to feel as though their cultural identity and hardships have been acknowledged.
Nick Barry is a lifelong jotter of ideas, scribbler of jokes and sketcher of Dawgs. Nick’s art-form lives in a colourful, hand-drawn world where reside the iconic ‘Dragon-Dawgs’.
Write just one word. Then another. Write another. Draw that line. Mark that page. Make a dot, a squiggle, an imperfect circle. So what if it’s wonky? So what if it looks more like a weird elephant’s ear? Play that chord. Sing that note. Sing another. Sing three in a row. Start something. Do it. In the words of avant-garde composer John Cage: ‘Begin anywhere.’
The Common Ground is a page
dedicated to expression.
Do you have something you’d
like to share?
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