Mediocrity. Few words cut as sharply. For an artist still searching for their voice, it can feel like a final sentence.

Finding your own niche in art is a task every artist faces, regardless of experience or genre

Walk into almost any gallery this month and you’ll see it: a small knot of visitors listing toward one painting, phones half-raised, brows furrowed in concentration. It isn’t always the biggest canvas in the room or even the brightest.