I’m afraid my answers are not so academic.

Who said they had to be?

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I’m an artist myself,

And there we are … we’re already into the question of what decides who may (or may not) call themself an artist — that’s pretty academic already … perhaps you shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss yourself 😀

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I love Art, in any form and I’m no-one to judge other artists art.

And yet … the moment we decide we like (or don’t) some art, we’re judging it, are we not?

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Besides, you could say that Poetry is purely conceptual, no?

I’d argue … and have done … that all art is conceptual, so you’ll get no counterargument from me there.

But what about it strikes you as conceptual?

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How do you consider your writing or your music?

My writing?

Hmmmmm … language is inherently conceptual, I think — it’s a way to manipulate concepts and transmit them to others … to put our thoughts in their minds.

But, yes, I play with it specifically … from wordgames, puns, innuendo (innuendi?) to more abstract stuff (as here) — not a little of it concerns language per se rather than, as you, using it to paint pictures (although I done that on occasion too).

Music … that’s a more physical (I’m a dancer) and emotional thing for me than conceptual — I don’t think it, but feel it (although there is a lot of very abstract thinking has to go into it’s creation).