Biotiques

This series of paintings stem from the artist’s love for nature and the biotic, fertile earth. A sense of movement permeates these works as if a flow of current, wind or water might be rushing through them. One or two word titles hint at metaphor suggested through illuminated natural forms or unexpected living entities.

Raw Rosettes

Again, Vaughan cannot separate her attachment to this nostalgic bloom, the rose. Notice, however, she seems to be more interested in them as dried keepsakes or gone-to-seed wreckages…never a perfect bloom of prime beauty, but more of a bramble or gnarled undergrowth. Raw roses presented in such excess with found-object patina, put an old look with the mod, an antique impulse with the present.

Piquant-scapes

Here one discovers a most delectable play on fruit and vegetables, but don’t count the artist in as a food painter. With a master’s thesis on food imagery & feminine desire, Vaughan’s piquant pictures are love paintings at least. One can try to make them still-lifes or organic edibles gone afloat, but most of all they exude feeling associated with human relationships or experience. Let a split fig evoke an aching heart turned open, or a tumbling citrus entice you to dance or despair. Such objects are fun, even intriguing to look at, yet curious to define.