"The way you are learning to paint right now, we know is the correct way, and has been for hundreds of years. It was developed by the masters in the arts and has been passed down for generations, and now unto you." —A notion shared by most classic art teachers to their art students.

For centuries, old masters of art have left a legacy, teaching us how to create. And, for centuries, we have created in this way. Following the guidelines laid out by our art teachers, who were taught the same principals by their teachers, and so on. Now in the dawn of a half a millennium of blindly following suit, will artists continue this copied approach to making their works? When the very masters we speak of developed the methods we so strongly cling to today, it was genius, innovative creativity and consideration that led to the methods, not following what was already known and accepted.

Had they only kept on with what was considered mastery approaches, we might not have the pleasure of Impressionism, Fauvism, of course, Abstract Expressionism, and more. Within the saturation of imagery today, there is hesitation to trust taste in what could actually be considered a genius new idea, making artists cling even stronger to the tried and tested old ways of the masters. "See, this is technically good, so it's good.".

This exhibition argues that there is more to an artwork than technique that makes it compelling. So, what then?

Of course, this doesn't mean to ignore the sound methods laid out by our forefathers — understanding thousand-year-old mastery approaches to any practice is crucial in knowing how to move forward. So, what will come next?

In a room filled with one hundred artists all asked to paint the same still-life, what could stand out as strong and new? If they all follow the same approach, it is the artists' nuanced touch that makes it their own. It is something that lies deep within that finds a window to crawl out through the artistic expression that makes a copy-and-paste method of painting truly uniquely their creation. Is that nuance? Emotion? A random twitch in their arm? The beat of their pulse? Or, is it their perspective that makes one stand out as belonging to them?

This exhibition considers the latter — perspective. The gift of creative thinking is an artist's gift to the world. A new way of looking at or thinking about something, and allowing us to open our minds to it through its expression in their work. This considers art to be not just something we see, but something we feel, that shapes us into the future.

There is no contemporary exhibition that could fully claim to present new genius artistic method, but one could certainly create the space to start. Here, we have four artists who understand the mastery methods, but have thoughtfully diverted to present perspectives they feel go unappreciated for their impact, and beauty.