Usually the conversation continues over dinner, and if the art was really interesting, sometimes even when we next meet. 

Maybe I’m just stubborn in my views, but I think many people have this beautiful experience with art.

Art helps us see and think about things differently. 

Whether it be about religion, love, or, in Kristeena Saville’s case, the female anatomy, it is good to be challenged, question things and have to defend what you believe in. 

Andy Warhol once said: “Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”

So Ms Saville, who created “erotic art” in Daylesford, and the Castlemaine artists, who plastered: “Christmas is a lie” in the street, must both be brilliant.

They, after all, have created front page news with their artwork. You couldn’t say that for many watercolors depicting a pretty summer night’s sky. 

Just call it the art of controversy. 

I understand some people might be offended by the messages being sent.

Personally, there are things in this world far more offensive to me than candles in the shape of breasts and statements about the commercialism of Christmas. 

But there are no right or wrong answers with art. Just many different answers. 

So if these pieces have achieved nothing else, they’ve given us all something to chat about over the dinner table and around the water cooler at work.