Creating art with intention. It’s all for connection!

WHO WE ARE

We are Andrew and Sarah Wilson — husband and wife collaborative artists using words and visuals in meaningful ways. We've brought our modes of expression together to create art for community. We are working hand in hand, creating work that tells a story greater than our own.

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WHAT WE'RE CREATING

We believe in art that is inclusive, accessible, and thought-provoking. That is what we're setting out to create in the public art realm. Through painted murals, we seek to tell meaningful stories, while sparking reflection and dialogue.

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THE LATEST / @HANDINHANDCREATIVE

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How do our feelings look? And how do we communicate feelings? We often use our native language to do so. But what if our language wasn’t made up of symbols and words, but instead color, value, lines, and shapes. We focused on two questions for the work we created with our campers last week as we explored “Self Expression Through Art.” 1. How do we tell the story or feelings of our lives in a nonobjective way? 2. What has made us who we are today? Initially, we are all different, but especially by the time we’re in middle school, our preferences, uncontrollable events, and responses to each have set each of us on even more divergent paths. Ages twelve and thirteen are the transitional ages of life when we step out of who were raised to be and begin transforming into who we choose to be. It’s important (at any age) we look back and see who we are and why we are. Reflection is a life skill. Communicating one’s feelings is a life skill. The week in a nutshell: DIG into your story. DISCOVER the ways to tell through art media. DEFEND your decisions with the evidence you’ve been given in this life. Slides 1-2: the final self-portrait. Slide 3: mark and value representing song Slide 4: discovering color with the seasons Slides 5-7: three emotions that have defined us, discussion Slides 8-9: poetic memoir of “landmark” event in our story Slide 10: the artist shares through their work Too much to say in one post— please message us if you want to know more! This camp is close to our hearts as humans and our work as artists. #artcamp #markmaking #selfportrait #paintbyfeeling #selfexpression #poeticmemoir #nonobjectiveart #artishard
Some people spend months on their build-outs. We had a couple weeks to get “the marshmellow” road ready. // Two weeks before we departed for our mural in South Carolina, we started our build-out on our newly acquired box truck. She came equipped with a solar kit, bed frame, cabinetry, insulation and walls, as she previously served as a vessel for stealth camping for the wonderful couple we purchased her from. We knew we wanted to make adjustments to make her ours, while building upon what was already in motion. After taking everything out, we started with the floor. Though our best intention was to reuse the partial flooring that was there and fill in gaps, the most cost effective option to cover the entire area and for ease of install was new peel-and-stick vinyl. A hole was cut in the ceiling to install our vent fan, which as our only active cooling system on our first trek was a life saver! (works like an attic fan pulling air through constantly). We took off the existing back doors and then built out the back frame with reused wood from a high school friend of Sarah’s (thank you Duce!!) Inspired by Sarah’s childhood home, the back was built around our door and crank window from Pensacola salvage. The $25 door was bought with E in mind. We opted to cover the existing dog door hole since the door had to be cut down to size (it’s metal so that was a fun jigsaw time!). We added a second door for access to our “garage” under the bed. Despite rainy days, we had a prime protected spot to work at Andrew’s parents house with access to helping hands and a table saw. This condensed time of long days and tired bodies was a whirlwind schooling in new territory and a different application of the recurring life lesson that is releasing your expectations! In the end we rolled out of town with the exterior feeling like home (complete with a wreath made by Sarah’s grandparents). And the interior in a workable state to live. The beauty of things being unfinished is we got to see what works and what doesn’t and go from there. (Isn’t that life?) We’re still seeing. [We like what we’re seeing]. #tinyhouse #boxtrucklife #mobileartists #mobileliving #vanlife #tinyliving #vanbuild
Going back to the beginning. Where it started for us. In marriage, and also in murals. The inaugural gargantuan painting experience. The testing of the waters. Or the pushing for a proof of concept. Because it was this wall and those 17 nights of painting that told us all we needed to know. And how dare we leave it for two years unsigned. But we didn’t yet have our name. How proud we are for putting the practice before the name. Well, it was time. We returned to St. Augustine last weekend, and signing our first mural @thehyppocoffeebar couldn’t have felt more right. This work lives in the company of good people, good vision, and good coffee. Seeing it in such a context makes us smile every time, as do the interactions that come from being in this space. Being back in STA even for such a short time and signing and sitting with this was a feeling of closure, and a needed reminder of where we’ve been, but even more so, an affirmation of where and why we are presently. Life and art are full circle friends. #muralmonday #muralists #mural #artwork #staugustine #stafla #hyppo #hyppocoffeebar #painting #publicart #eatfruit #hyppopops #staug #sherwinwilliams
We don’t often see the magnitude of transformation as it is happening. Usually it’s when we look back — we can observe and more clearly see how all the intentional micro choices we’ve made have become important parts of the bigger picture. And it’s a pretty spectacular view! We’ve said it before and we’re saying it again: lessons in life and in art go hand in hand. 😉#handinhandcreative #collaborativeartists #artishard #muralists #southernartists #paintbig #alwayshandpaint #markmaking #artforall #artfields2019