That’s so relatable, although I’m very wary of talking much about this sort of thing.
I have zero formal artistic education, unless you count growing up in a household filled with books, pictures, music and so on. My mum loved all those…
But the local art scene around here, (small town Australia) somehow to me has a very strong flavour of something I can’t quite define. Somehow a certain kind of small mindedness to it.
Anyway, as I said I don’t feel qualified to comment, but I have always found it off-putting to the point that I have no involvement at all with the local galleries, shows, etc.
I may just be eccentric and unsociable. 