A frightening thought for some to do alone, the male trio - Kelvin Hines, John Douglas and Peter Douglas - found strength in numbers; building the courage to show the city a featured range of artwork that would usually remain unseen.

Usually exhibiting solo artists for one month at a time, OAS' Wanda Driscoll - Wednesday art coordinator - felt "the boys" weren't going to exhibit as individuals, but the idea of joining forces went down well with them.

"Well, the three boys got together to feature as three artists in one go, because I think they felt too shy to put on an exhibition on their own," Ms Wana Driscoll explained.

"But they've agreed ... they're going to let people have a look at their artwork."

Twenty per cent of the money from purchased works will go back into the OAS, with the rest going directly to the artists themselves.

"You should see what they can do though," Ms Driscoll continued.

"And these fellows have got a theme in a way; two of them only draw or paint in pencil or black or white, and of those two, one of them is in fact colour blind."

The group of men echoed one another in feeling more content and happy to feature their works as a group and they've each "enjoyed the laughter" along the way.

"[Exhibiting] as a group we just thought would be better because then we knew we wouldn't be going it alone," laughed Mr Kelvin Hines.

"Just having the courage for us all to stick it up there on the wall and say 'this is us' ... it'll be truly excellent," Mr Peter Douglas said.

"We're trying hard to do something, but we don't take ourselves too serious and we very much enjoy the social aspect of it".

"I still don't consider myself an artist, but I've got works hanging up out there, so ... maybe I am," Mr John Douglas laughed.

"You do a lot of drawing yourself, but it's different when you've got the other men around for that comradery and then knowing you'll have someone else looking at [your artwork] ... to me, it inspires me a bit more; gives me more reason to keep creating."

The exhibition starts at OAS this Saturday, December 4, and will show through to February, 2022.