Introduction

Art Vaughan

Contemporary Artist

Art from the heart.

Art for the soul.

I create paintings, mixed media works and collages which evoke a sense of place or mood, appeal to the imagination and provoke deeper reflection.

 

The President of the New Zealand Academy described my recent paintings as "cosmic, powerful and challenging works" (Greg Chaston, Solo48 Catalogue September 2020).

I rely on the power of suggestion, rather than depiction. My images are often multi-layered and reward the viewer who spends time with them.

"Insight" Acrylic and paper on canvas, 410 by 500 mm (16 by 20 inches)

My art works usually begin from some visual stimulus and are developed within a compositional structure and general sense of  mood, until the magical moment when the work develops its own momentum. From that point on, I respond intuitively to the developing art work.

My latest project is an image and text exploration of Walls: Part 1, Ambiguities; Part 2, Stories; Part 3, Life; Part 4, Traces

 

 The gallery of mixed media Meditations on Country is here.