How Does It Work?

1. Understand the approach
Please read our About page to understand our philosophy and approach. To Write Art is a self-directed program for students aged 16 and over that combines written concepts, reflection, and creative tasks. Please make sure this style of learning is right for you.

2. Explore our programs
Read about each program below and choose the one that interests you most.

3. Purchase your program
After purchase, you will receive immediate access to your complete 12-month digital program. Hard copies will be available from mid-September 2026.

4. When you are ready, start your program
Explore topics in any order, complete creative tasks, and reflect at your own pace.

5. Access optional support
Join the Self Check-In, participate in Zoom discussions (available to students aged 18 and over from January 2027), or contact us by email whenever you need support.

6. Complete the program your way
Submit artwork for a Certificate of Completion, request to have your work featured on our gallery page or Instagram, or keep your creative process private.

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Explore the Programs

Program 1 — Perception | 202-page PDF download

To Write Art — Perception is a 12-month, self-directed art education program built around philosophical and conceptual written content that explores how perception, emotions, and personal reflection shape creativity and artistic expression.

Program Overview
This program invites students to investigate how perception influences creativity — examining how emotions, sensory experiences, cultural context, and imagination transform the act of seeing into art. It's designed for mature art students with basic art knowledge who are ready to engage with complex emotional and philosophical aspects of art.

Seven Core Topics (12 Tasks Total)
Seeing & Feeling Art (Months 1–2)
Tasks: Childhood Memory artwork & Personal Reflection painting
Focus: How personal perception differs between individuals

Something vs. Nothing (Months 3–4)
Tasks: Drawing a Wish & Representing ‘Nothing’
Focus: Exploring presence and absence, emotion and emptiness

Bad Art (Month 5)
Task: Creating art around ‘Failure’
Focus: Embracing experimentation and viewing mistakes as growth

Colour (Months 6–7)
Tasks: Using one primary colour & Removing that colour
Focus: Colour psychology and emotional communication

Sound (Months 8–9)
Tasks: Sound for Art & Engaging All Senses
Focus: Integrating sound with visual art and multi-sensory creation

More Than Art (Month 10)
Task: Self-Portrait
Focus: Representing personal identity and neurodiverse perspectives

To Do Art (Months 11–12)
Tasks: The Art of Now & Future of Art
Focus: Self-reflection and imagining art's future possibilities

Key Features

  • Flexible pacing (3–4 weeks per task recommended)

  • Freedom to choose any artistic medium (traditional or digital)

  • Structured components for each topic: Mind Maps, Learning Objectives, Reflective Processes, Hints, and Self-Evaluation

  • Optional artwork submission for Certificate of Completion

  • Opportunity to share work globally and compare approaches across cultures


Program Goals

  • Expand creativity by challenging how you see and interpret art

  • Enhance personal growth through exploring perception, emotion, and imagination

  • Understand art as both an emotional and intellectual experience

  • Create a body of work that captures not just what you see, but how you see


The program emphasises that by its end, students will have developed the ability to observe, reflect, and express in unconventional ways, creating art that transforms perception into meaningful expression.

Program 2 — Non-Human Art | 202-page PDF download

To Write Art — Non-Human Art is a 12-month, self-directed art education program built around philosophical and conceptual written content that explores creativity beyond human boundaries, examining how non-human forces can shape, inspire, and collaborate in the artistic process.

Program Overview
This program invites students to step beyond traditional boundaries and engage with the natural world, non-human life forms, technology, energy, and mystery. It's designed for mature art students with basic art knowledge who are curious, imaginative, and comfortable with open-ended creative challenges and abstract, conceptual work.

Six Core Topics (10 Tasks Total)
Not Human (Months 1-3)
Tasks: Insect-Inspired 3D Art, Peacock-Inspired Performance Art & Organism-Inspired Art
Focus: How non-human entities like insects, animals, and aquatic organisms create art and inspire human creativity

Cosmic Art (Months 4-5)
Tasks: Zodiac-Inspired Portrait & Painting of Planetary Influence
Focus: How astrology influences art, with zodiac signs and planets shaping creativity

Spiritual Art (Months 6-7)
Task: Living and Spiritual Connection
Focus: Exploring profound beliefs and connections through sacred objects and spiritual themes

The Movement of Air (Months 8-9)
Tasks: Kinetic or Sound Art & Four-Dimensional Art
Focus: How air's intangible nature adds movement, depth, and interactivity across dimensions

Artificial Intelligence (Month 10)
Task: AI-Enhanced Memory Art
Focus: AI's role in art and its potential to complement or challenge human creativity

The Unexplained (Months 11-12)
Task: Alien or Paranormal Art
Focus: Exploring supernatural or extraterrestrial phenomena and unexplained artistic influences

Key Features

  • Flexible pacing (4-5 weeks per task recommended)

  • Freedom to choose any artistic medium (traditional, digital, found objects, or experimental materials)

  • Structured components for each topic: Mind Maps, Learning Objectives, Reflective Processes, Hints, and Self-Evaluation

  • Optional artwork submission for Certificate of Completion

  • Opportunity to share work globally and compare approaches across cultures


Program Goals

  • Expand creativity by opening practice to unexpected influences from natural factors, unexplained phenomena, and technology

  • Enhance personal growth by letting go of fixed expectations and embracing the unfamiliar

  • Understand art in a new way by discovering how creativity can emerge from patterns, systems, and interactions beyond human invention

  • Create a body of work that embodies collaboration with the non-human


The program emphasises that by its end, students will have developed a more resilient, imaginative, and open artistic practice — questioning authorship, exploring collaboration with forces beyond the human, and discovering art shaped by imagination, curiosity, and openness to the unknown.

Program 3 — Art Intersections | 216-page PDF download

To Write Art — Art Intersections is a 12-month, self-directed art education program built around philosophical and conceptual written content that explores how creativity operates at the crossroads of ideas, systems, and hidden structures, examining how art communicates, encodes, and transforms meaning.

Program Overview
This program invites students to investigate how art reveals, disguises, and transforms meaning through puzzles, games, hidden messages, numbers, problem-solving, time, and codes. It's designed for mature art students with basic art knowledge who enjoy problem-solving, symbolic thinking, or reflective work and are ready to explore complex ideas and deeply engaging tasks.

Seven Core Topics (12 Tasks Total)
Forbidden Art (Month 1)
Task: The Forbidden Act (ethically and legally explored)
Focus: Transforming forbidden topics into meaningful visual messages that inspire reflection and positive social change

The Puzzle (Months 2-3)
Tasks: Puzzle Within a Puzzle & Your Puzzle
Focus: Embedding puzzle elements within art to create interactive, problem-solving experiences

The Game of Art (Month 4)
Task: The Card Game
Focus: Combining elements of art and gaming to create interactive artworks with narrative and audience participation

Art by Numbers (Months 5-6)
Tasks: Numerology & Your Number
Focus: Integrating numerological meanings and symbolic systems into artwork

To Problem-Solve (Months 7-8)
Tasks: Problem-Solving & Holiday Art
Focus: Using art as a tool for visualising problem-solving processes and overcoming challenges

Time (Months 9-10)
Tasks: A Time Lesson & Time Challenge
Focus: Incorporating time as a medium and exploring how time constraints influence creativity

The Code (Months 11-12)
Tasks: Your Code & The Location
Focus: Using coding systems to embed hidden messages and invite viewers to decode meaning

Key Features

  • Flexible pacing (3-4 weeks per task recommended)

  • Freedom to choose any artistic medium (traditional or experimental)

  • Structured components for each topic: Mind Maps, Learning Objectives, Reflective Processes, Hints, and Self-Evaluation

  • Optional artwork submission for Certificate of Completion

  • Opportunity to share work globally and compare approaches across cultures

  • Strong emphasis on ethics, responsibility, and interdisciplinary learning


Program Goals

  • Expand creativity by exploring how art interacts with rules, secrets, logic, play, and the unknown

  • Enhance personal growth by reflecting on ethical boundaries, emotional experiences, and symbolic systems

  • Understand art in a new way by discovering how it can function as code, a mirror of social behaviour, storytelling method, and puzzle to solve

  • Create a body of work that demonstrates symbolic, critical, and reflective thinking


The program emphasises that by its end, students will have developed the ability to think differently — approaching art as a layered system of discovery, challenge, and transformation. The journey produces work that shows not only what you can make, but how you can think, question, and re-imagine through art.