Kiston D | 14 years | Jamaica

Alyssa J | 14 years | Trinidad & Tobago

During the Covid-19 pandemic I found it hard. It was very abrupt and no-one could have foreseen what we would be like today; that we would need to be cautious around the ones we loved, that we would have to stay inside for almost an entire year and stay away from all the people we would have loved and cared for who passed away. During this time I found great comfort in music. During the pandemic I found it hard to deal with my emotions, like if I was sad I didn't know how to express it, and there was a point that I felt helpless, like there was nothing I could do but feel sad or just feel like there was a huge void in my heart. But music helped. Music has made it easier to cope with my emotions. The different songs I listen to would have to fit in with my emotions- if I was sad there was a song that I could relate to, if I was happy there was a song I could relate to, if I was anxious there was a song I could relate to. So my piece is to show how I coped with the COVID-19 pandemic through music and I think music saved my life. 

"Protecting Us From COVID"

  coloured pencils

Caoimhe B | 15 years | Trinidad & Tobago

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus ran rampant among our streets, in the air, on surfaces at every turn, not even an umbrella could have protected us but a mask, gloves and washing our hands frequently prevented us from, as they said, "Catching the COVID". 

Jeadin J | 12 years | Grenada

Milan A | 15 years | Trinidad and Tobago

My art piece was made to represent how trapped I felt during the COVID period. The cage represented the house which we could not leave during State Of Emergency unless absolutely necessary. Many people suffered with depression and other mental illnesses during this period. I felt he pressure of taking the vaccine because at a point it was almost like we did not have a choice. That's the reason for the syringe surrounding the cage.

"Lost and Found Hope"

coloured pencils and markers

Mykah P | 14 years | Trinidad & Tobago

The piece meant that during COVID-19, I was broken and felt restricted to the sickness in the air but after it passed, a new season of hope for me was born which explains the flowers since they wilt and die but new flowers are created.  

"Loneliness"

coloured pencils

Rahul P | 15 years | Trinidad & Tobago

This piece is about our past experiences during the pandemic and is a representation of the things we could not have done because of it.

Aliya V | 14 years | Trinidad & Tobago

My piece conveys the struggle I had to go through during the pandemic which made me feel trapped, both physically and emotionally. I used graphite pencils to create this piece and I chose to not use colour to show the seriousness of what I felt. 

Ava V | 11 years | Trinidad & Tobago 

I used coloured pens and markers to create this piece that shows the feeling of being boxed in during the pandemic. It was hard, but I had to concentrate on finding the positives and finding ways to grow and develop anyway, in spite of how hard things were. It was very hard for me to do online school and to be away from my friends. I felt very isolated. 

"19th Dimension of Isolation"

                 coloured pencils and markers

Kayode L | age 16 years | Trinidad & Tobago

19th Dimension of Isolation is the mind and situation of a 16 year old boy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It speaks of a sense of isolation and separation from the rest of the world. and from his daily form of communication with anything else. It speaks of the items he would use to save himself from the contraction of the COVID-19 virus. 

Serenity

                pencil and coloured pencil

Kai B | age  15 years| Trinidad and Tobago

This abstract piece is a minimal and artistic representation of two main components in the COVID-19 experience, (toilet paper and hand sanitiser), also including the Trinidad and Tobago national colours into the artwork.

Milan A | 15 years | Trinidad & Tobago

The inspiration for my piece was hearing all the news of suicides... also talking to my friends and hearing them talk about their mental health. 

Leanne B | 17 years | Grenada

"Quarantine"

                coloured pencil and markers

Jxaviea P | 14 years | Trinidad & Tobago

Watching your room and nowhere to go. Bed is made-up, the room is clean, COVID infomercials during quarantine. 

Nubya R | 13 years | Grenada

Kristina H | 14 years | Trinidad & Tobago 

COVID 19 had a negative impact on so many persons. It was a dark time for many. No social interaction, no school, protests, falling economy, death and even the cure seem like an evil. 

Annabelle A | 13 years | Trinidad & Tobago

I used a digital app called Ibis paint x on my phone to make this and then I used a mono type brush for the line art of it and then for the rest, I used a water type brush. 

Dominique F | 14 years | Trinidad & Tobago

Nia-Marie R | 16 years | Trinidad & Tobago

The piece is a digital drawing, depicting the experience in an exaggerated sense of what it feels like to walk in streets infested with COVID 19, whilst also showing the effects of how COVID impacted the world, cancelling events, the sudden need of cleaning supplies and lack of toilet paper. The inspiration for the piece was an apocalyptic rundown town with a retro aesthetic using mainly the colours red and blue. 

Gerlanda C | 13 years | Trinidad & Tobago 

This art piece's goal was to give off how I felt during the COVID 19 pandemic onto the viewer, where I am on this long inevitable journey through Hurricane COVID in order to return to life before COVID and the darkest hurricane clouds showing what affected me the most during the pandemic. I have included all that Trinidad and Tobago and other countries would have went through nations during the COVID pandemic. I opted to use a pencil and pen to do this piece because of the colours and how little they would have been used during the pandemic because of online school. Finally, at the end of the road, I have what I would like to be the end of the road after this hurricane. However, life would not be the same as it was before COVID 19. 

Jamal A | age 17 years | Trinidad & Tobago

Caris M | Age 14 years | Trinidad & Tobago

Caris M | 14 years | Trinidad & Tobago 

This piece shows the pressure and struggle of how it was going through this COVID-19 pandemic. It shows some of the things we all probably experienced. The piece focuses on the mental part or strain on young people like myself who experienced the pandemic in a negative way. The background should have had a color but it's made to look jumbled in a way to have the people watching kept captivated and interested to keep looking and analyzing the piece. It could have been bigger to fit more but in the piece she's having all these thoughts running through her mind about COVID-19, overthinking you could say. 

Maria R |  14 years | Trinidad & Tobago

This artwork shows the struggles I went through during the pandemic. My main inspiration for this artwork was online school because it was difficult at times and made me stressed out. I really enjoyed drawing this piece especially since I expressed my feelings during the pandemic. 

Chrishaun L | age not supplied | Jamaica

Skylar S | 12 years | Trinidad & Tobago 

Rayanna B | 13 years | Trinidad & Tobago

My inspiration came from the art of expressionism. I wanted to depict the art of "hiding your emotions" instead of going with the cliché version of drawing a person with a fake "mask" on I decided to recreate one of my old drawings I drew last year in quarantine because I think it really shows my mental health exactly. 

Amaya A | 13 years | Trinidad & Tobago

As a young girl my parents say I hold the future in my hands. During the COVID-19 pandemic while I feel hope and that we can be resilient, I am confused. The jar represents something fragile that can be broken or fall from my hand because I lost so many family and friends, school time and freedom during this time. I used crayons, coloured pencils and copy paper because these are available resources and during COVID. You have to live with and use what you have. 

"Train 19"

                       coloured pencil and markers

Anja-Marie F | Age 15years | Trinidad & Tobago

COVID-19 fast forwarded our lives. 2020-2021 was suddenly taken away from us and as soon as we knew it we were shoved back into some form of normalcy with two years of our lives a blank memory.  

Kishaun D | age not supplied | Jamaica

Ayoka B | 13 years | Trinidad & Tobago

Isla L | 12 years | Grenada

Hadassah B | 13 years | Trinidad & Tobago

Zillaine F | age not suplied | Grenada

David T | age not supplied | Jamaica 

Kaaliyah T | 13 years | Grenada