21/07/2026
Somewhere around Year 7, art stops being something most teenagers just do.
It becomes a subject they're graded on — or it disappears from the week entirely. The teens who don't choose Visual Arts lose it altogether. The ones who do often find it's now about criteria, folios and marks.
Teen Art Studio is the missing hour and a half.
Four Tuesdays in my Perth Hills studio, four students, ages 13–17. Mixed media — drawing, paint, ink, collage — taught as each teen needs, with real technique. Nothing marked. No folio. No phones.
The room is built for different kinds of attention: small, predictable, ungraded, no one made to talk, movement absolutely fine. Neurodivergent teens are genuinely welcome, and so is anyone who would benefit from an art class which allows expression of thoughts, feelings and creativity.
And the making does something on its own. Ninety minutes of deep focus with nothing buzzing. Staying with a piece through the stage where it looks terrible. Making a choice and living with it. Being in a room with other people without having to perform for them. Finishing something you chose yourself. None of that is incidental — it's designed in.
Tuesdays 4:30–6:00pm from 4 August. $240 for the four-week block, every material included. Four places only.
Link in bio, or send me a message and I'll answer anything.
(Creative practice for wellbeing — not art therapy. I'm an artist and teacher, not a support service, so if your teen needs one-to-one support to take part safely, message me first and we'll work out whether it fits.)
Book here: https://www.artbymeltaylor.com/store/p/teen-art-studio
