ARTKOM for Individuals
When life becomes full, the studio makes room for what is harder to hear.
You may spend much of your time doing, caring, organising or adapting to what life asks of you. Perhaps you are moving through change, missing your creative energy, or simply longing for a space that feels genuinely your own.
ARTKOM offers artist-led studio experiences where you can slow the pace, work with colour and material, and reconnect with what is present—without needing artistic experience or a clear answer in advance.
For you
Perhaps you recognise this
- Your days are full, but there is little space that feels truly yours.
- You are moving through a transition and need another way to reflect.
- You miss working with your hands, following curiosity or creating without having to perform.
- You want meaningful connection, but not necessarily another conversation in which everything has to be explained.
- You feel drawn to art, even if you do not consider yourself creative.
What this is
A different way to meet yourself through art.
These atelier experiences are for thoughtful adults, professionals, parents, caregivers, leaders, people in transition or anyone longing for meaningful creative space.
You do not need to call yourself an artist. You are invited into a guided creative process where making becomes a way to slow down, listen, reflect and reconnect.
No artistic experience needed
You are welcomed exactly as you are.
Guided by an artist, not a formula
A living process, held with care.
Focused on process, presence and meaning
Not on technique or performance.
The point
Why art?
People do not always come to the studio because they want to make an artwork. Often, they are looking for a different way of paying attention.
Colour, material, movement and image can make space for experiences that are difficult to organise into words. The aim is not to create something perfect, but to notice, explore and allow something new to emerge.
Ways in
Ways to enter the atelier.
Three artist-led group experiences, each offering a different rhythm of making, connection and participation. Return to a regular painting practice, join a monthly gathering around shared making, or step more deeply into the living process of an artist's studio.
Recurring practice
The Painting Game
Return to the practice
The Painting Game is a recurring painting practice based on the conditions developed by artist and researcher Arno Stern.
Paint freely on paper, following colour, gesture and your own impulse rather than an assignment or predetermined theme. Returning regularly allows the practice to unfold with increasing freedom, attention and continuity.
Details
- · Duration: 2 hours
- · Paper, paint and materials included
- · Tea and water provided
- · No artistic experience required
Price
€55 for a single session
€240 for five sessions
Monthly social atelier
Open Atelier
Meet through making
Once a month, ARTKOM opens the studio around a different creative invitation, material or artistic question.
Make at your own pace, meet others around the table and enjoy a welcoming shared experience. Each edition closes with an optional moment of reflection over drinks and thoughtful bites.
Details
- · Duration: 2.5 hours
- · A different creative invitation each month
- · All art materials included
- · Drinks and bites included
- · No artistic experience required
Price
€65 per person, all included
Seasonal studio experience
Signature Studio Atelier
Enter the artist's world
Several times a year, Nicky Myny hosts an intimate half-day experience rooted in her current artistic practice.
Participants encounter works in progress, explore the materials and questions present in the studio and move through several stages of making. The experience concludes around a beautifully prepared shared table.
Details
- · Duration: 4 hours
- · Offered on selected seasonal dates
- · Maximum 6 to 8 participants
- · Premium and larger-format materials included
- · Drinks and a light shared meal included
- · Artist-curated take-home element included
- · No artistic experience required
Price
€125 per person, all included
ARTKOM is an artist-led practice, not therapy, coaching or a painting course.
Looking for a more personal experience?
Private Atelier.
A limited number of one-to-one ateliers are available for people who want more personal attention, privacy and space to explore a creative question or period of transition.
The process is shaped around the individual while remaining grounded in colour, gesture, material and artistic practice.
- · Two-hour Private Atelier: €295
- · Half-day Private Atelier: €650
- · Materials included
- · At the ARTKOM studio or by arrangement
Why it matters
Why participatory art?
Sometimes conversation alone is not enough. Participatory art offers another way in through colour, gesture, material and shared attention, held by an artist with two decades of practice.
Read Our Approach →What to expect
What happens in an atelier?
01
Arrival
A gentle landing into the space, materials and theme.
02
Invitation
A clear creative prompt or artistic starting point.
03
Making
Time with colour, gesture, material, form and intuitive process.
04
Reflection
Space to notice what emerged, without analysis or performance.
05
Closing
A moment to gather visual traces, insights or questions.
Who it is for
This may be for you if…
- You want to reconnect with your creative voice
- You are moving through change, recovery or transition
- You want meaningful time away from performance and productivity
- You are curious about art as a space for reflection
- You long for a slower, more embodied form of expression
- You do not need to become an artist, but want to create again
- You are looking for depth without therapy language
For healthcare and care partners
Arts on Prescription.
Arts on Prescription pathways are developed in collaboration with healthcare, wellbeing and cultural organisations for people living with long-term health challenges.
The artist
Guided by Nicky Myny.
Nicky Myny is a painter, participatory artist and founder of ARTKOM Arts & Health. Her practice grew from a personal encounter with art during illness, developed over two decades into professional Arts & Health work.
Begin
Enter the atelier.
Choose the pathway that fits where you are now, an open small-group atelier, a private creative practice, or a care-context collaboration.