current-ly

16.5 x 30.5”
acrylic on wood
2000.

An inlet on the Sissiboo River in Nova Scotia, gently flows around a flat dune. Color and light hit the soft current, giving the scene a sense of calm. A painted side panel is added as a design component, extending smooth lines of movement.

day by day

Day by day the tide rises and falls like metaphor to the human condition. Life rolls on, shifts and changes, no matter what.  This landscape of distant bluff, sand and rock captures the shoreline as it recedes, allowing us to breathe before disconcerting flux comes again.

16.5 x 49”
acrylic on wood with metal mid-panel
2400.

green’s way

18.5 x 32.5”
acrylic on wood with old band of wood
2200.

Spring dunes burgeon along a strand of an “oh-so-blue” distant horizon. A weathered band of green accompanies the piece in ode to the color green and the way it calms, if not reassures us of our place in the world, which is, in this case, along the soothing liberation of the sea.

picture window

14 x 27.5”
acrylic on wood with old crib parts
1200.

A water way is framed alongside matching solid colors, giving the landscape a modern look. Green sections of an old baby crib add a feeling of nostalgia to the piece through the structure weathered wood and detail.

bluster

12 x 14”
acrylic on wood 
1000.

Channeling the Canadian Group of Seven (F. H. Varley), Vaughan becomes intrigued with the force of elements while on residency in Nova Scotia. She turns the knob up on color and plays with windswept tress on rocky cliffs, much as Varley did. A tenacity of endurance is the subject expressed.

 

flat water destinies

12 x 67”
acrylic on wood with metal mid-panel
2400.

This panorama of the Platte River branches into the horizon with a muted palette and sense of place. Beyond the narrative is the idea that, like a moving river, our own lives shift and flow, opening up destinies we are meant to experience.

wind hill

14 x 16”
acrylic on wood with bottom inlay
1000.

This Sonoma County incline is energized with color and movement. A green pine above suggests autonomy and a tenacity of spirit. The naturally-weathered panel below symbolizes a continuum of time. We go, yet land stays and continues to nurture generations to come.

white day byway

27 x 19”
acrylic on wood with thin inlay
2000.

This wildflower landscape captures a pleasant day along coastal roads that are a slice of misty heaven. The goal here was to pay homage to the natural beauty of our county.

 

little scottie

5 x 9.5”
acrylic on wood
250.

Having spent time in Nova Scotia, the awareness of the New Scotland plaid came into the artist’s palette for fun as Vaughan paints a little ode to the wind and the trees.

patterns before us

12.5 x 14”
acrylic on wood with 1930’s linoleum panel
1000.

The ocean is bordered by a grove of pines along the quiet shoreline of Arcadian Canada. A feeling of the past is expressed by placing a rhythmic pattern of old linoleum alongside the rhythm of the sea.

wind swift

17 x 6”
acrylic on wood
600.

A slender, seaside topiary whips with the wind. One ponders how this living timber began its life in rock and stone. A message of tenacity is captured in this simple scene.

 

cloud nine

21 x 14”
acrylic on wood
800.

This painting captures light playing with cloud formations like infinite abstraction. There is a kind of love in the air when one dreams, ponders and rests ones thoughts on white vapors floating by.

 

time after time

14 x 42.5”
acrylic on wood with added 1930’s linoleum
2200.

A fertile panorama of a tranquil Canadian cove becomes a symbol of continuum as time passes. A vintage swatch of linoleum from days gone by, hints at the past and the brevity of the present.

 

windswept

12.5 x 24.5”
acrylic on wood
800.

This image of wind across the bay recognizes the tenacity of trees and hints at our own ability to weather obstacles. There is beauty to windswept movement and ocean coasts that are constantly in flux.

brio hills

21 x 37”
acrylic on wood
2400.

Vaughan personifies the hills of Sonoma County, giving the terrain energy and movement. Every tree, bush and cloud is animated, acting as metaphor to our own vitality and deep connection to place.

strand

31 x 49”
acrylic on wood
3000.

This landscape is all about dune and distance. No manmade structures accompany this scene, yet a thin weathered strip of wood is inlaid as metaphor to the continuum of life. We are taken back to a time of sea and sand. We imagine the ocean as it has always been, shifting and changing with the elements. To breathe in the coastal strand of open spaces is remedy for letting go of bedlam, at least for a short while.

ness of sound

21.5 x 29”
acrylic on wood with weathered panel
2200.

This painting of seaside bluff is painted like one embroiders or knits a kaleidoscope of color. The goal was to show the fertile, thick life of those shaggy, full earth dunes, abundant with life that border the shores and react to the sea, day in and day out. 

green ostinato

15 x 10.5”
acrylic on wood with 1930’s linoleum panel
800.

This verdant Canadian cove in Nova Scotia is reminiscent of day-in and day-out tide cycles.

A thin pattern of visual rhythm in the form of old linoleum is added as a design detail. The term “ostinato” refers to the repetition of music, which hints at the song of the sea in this image.

 

sound and sand

31 x 21”
acrylic on wood
2200.

A quiet cove in Nova Scotia captures deep greens and distant tree lines. A loose abstraction in the foreground gives the viewer a feeling of raw earth and shifting tributaries.

blue horizon | SOLD

27.5 x 49.5
acrylic on wood
3000.

The edge of the sea is often dramatic in terms of land mass and light. Here, blue shadows and water pools meet cliffs of sedge and wild flower in a rich palette. For those of us who are lucky enough to experience the sea, this painting takes on a quality of miracle and gratitude.

wintertide | SOLD

30 x 77”
acrylic on wood with old metal panels
5000.

The Platte River for those of us who know it, changes distinctively with the four seasons. The cold weather can turn its flat expanses of sandbar and waterway into a sheet of white that enhance the light, especially at sunset. Two retro aluminum panels give the raw, winter river scene, a modern take on the long, horizontal lines that reflect Nebraska.

 

trinity | SOLD

54 x 66”
acrylic on wood within vintage black 3-part screen
4000.

This rare 1930’s black screen encorporated into a large triptych, houses a landscape of Northern California, making a traditional vista, sacred, as a visual experience. The old meets the new in a nostalgic way. A shelf of rolling marbles hints at the idea that the earth is a planet (often called the “blue marble” ) and is constantly shifting, changing and moving as we are.

river logic | SOLD


23 x 31”
acrylic on wood
2000.

This colorful river scene was painted for the cover of a book entitled River Logic by Denise Blanc, a California author whose work uses the river as metaphor to relationships and the art of communicating. It was meaningful to paint water as it continues to be a valuable, if not a priceless resource in our changing world.  

To purchase RiverLogic by Denise Blanc go to: riverlogictools.com