
Nick Barry – Featured Artist Issue 01
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’.

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?

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?