These personal artworks are far removed from so called “high art” or arts-based research art. They are not trying to do so much, they are not as meaningful or conceptual perhaps. They were stimulating to create and are hopefully enjoyable to look at for simple reasons such as their colours, content, composition. This sort of illustrative, representational, fun, small-scale, hobby-art is in my opinion still a mode of art which should be valued and encouraged as one form of art within Art education (even though the Deschooling Art Education project focuses on non-representational works, lack of variation is a prime issue of the current state of “school art”). 

Dr Daisy Fancourt has suggested that engaging in creative activities can benefit personal wellbeing as such activities can act as: