OP, the key to me is that she enjoys Art. She has a great range of GCSE options - keeping lots of things open, and if Art gives her a break from academia in some way, then that can be a real relief, as GCSEs are not overly hard, but they are a trudge. She may wish to take Art at A level, she may not, but she will certainly do better in subjects that she enjoys.
Students who are very arty will, naturally, spend more hours on the art subject - and may well spend many lunchtimes in the art room - DG sees this as a bad thing - however, I would respectfully suggest that I VERY much doubt, if they weren't doing Art eg the OPs DD, and chose another subject, she is highly unlikely to be spending her lunchtimes doing Geog or Maths or whatever - lunch is a social time (which can be as important as the academic side) and if a child can socialise whilst working on her Art, that is not necessarily a bad thing.
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