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email vvaughan8@yahoo.com or call 512-272-5152
Biography
V….is for “Virginia” Vaughan.
An impressionist oil painter, Vaughan has studied with the best: Ray Vinella, Kevin Macpherson, Ann Templeton, Kathryn Stats and Carolyn Anderson. Preferring plein air painting, she now paints on location all across America. “My favorite subjects are wild places and around the countryside near America's small farms. I completed 365 daily small works depicting my family's "Last Year on the Farm"'. The paintings were featured at various museums and venues, and received great revues. See exhibit schedule and all 365 works on the web site, along with Vaughan’s field notes from each canvas.
Recently Vaughan’s paintings have been winning awards across America. Her paintings have begun to be acquired by museums and numerous collectors. (see info below). She was a finalist for Texas State Artist designation. ( 2010).
Since 2006 Vaughan has been a "Daily Painter", presenting a painting a day and field notes on a BLOG (www.vvaughan.blogspot.com).
In October of 2011, Vaughan presented a follow-up exhibit to "Last Year on the Farm". A continuation of the theme of America's disappearing family farms.
"Passing America: The Great Plains" is a solo show on view at the Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska (through December, 2011).
V….Vaughan spent many years as a graphic designer/art director/illustrator, working in advertising and winning Addy Awards. Her clients included Samsung, The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and Harcourt Publishing. V....Vaughan Arts grew through RockSports Inc. who still features V....Vaughan’s colorful designs in national catalogs and websites.
For 20 years Vaughan has been the art instructor at Round Rock Christian Academy, and Hyde Park Baptist High School in Texas, where her students have won many awards. She also teaches painting workshops all across America throughout the year, recently hanging her teaching shingle at the Fredericksburg Artist’s School in Texas.
" I paint because it’s the best way I know how to communicate, study and observe God’s creative work, and to think His thoughts after Him. “
GALLERIES
V....Vaughan is proud to be represented by the following galleries:
- Act I Gallery - Taos, NM
- WIndrush Gallery - Sedona, AZ
- Firedworks Gallery - Alamosa, CO
-Up Against the Wall Gallery - Kingsport, TN
-Castle Gallery - Ft Wayne, IN
-Cactus Jack's- Gruene, TX
Past and Current Associations:
Oil Painters of America
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters
American Women Artists-Signature Member
American Plains Artists-Signature Member
Nomadas De Arte
Plein Air Austin
AWARDS
FINALIST** 2009 - 2010 Texas State Artist
Best in Media - PAINTING, Rockport Art Festival 2010, 2011
Salon International Merit Award, 2008
Phippen Museum Western Art Show , 2008 3rd Place - Oils
2007 - Southwest Art Magazine Award
Oil Painters of America - 2007 Shirl Smithson Scholarship Recipient
OPA National and Regional Shows
Society of Master Impressionists Merit Awards in 2007 and 2006
American Women Artists Merit Award 2007
Raymar Finalist, April 2008
The Artist's Magazine - Finalist 2006
Bluebonnet Blues - Texas - Best in Show 2007, 2nd and 3rd places in 2006
American Women Artists Rogue Simpson Award 2005
Arts for the Parks Mini 100 - 2005
Rockport (TX) Art Festival 2005 - Best in Media
Red River Revel 2005 - Best in Media
COLLECTIONS
The Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Gadsden Museum of Art , Gadsden, Alabama
Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, NE
NUMEROUS private collections
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Oct. - Dec., 2011 Passing America: The Great Plains, UNL, Lincoln, NE
Last Year on the Farm was exhibited at the following venues in 2008:
Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, NE
Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, NE
Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX
Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden,AL
Publications and Media:
Art of the West Magazine, Sept/Oct 2011
Peaks&Plains Magazine, Sept/Oct 2011
Kim Komando Newsletter, Oct 22, 2011. Kim's Favorites (click here and scroll halfway down)
Feature: Texas Country Reporter 2008 RFD-TV
Kim Komando Show, Aug. 7 or 8 2010, : Video Pick of the Day
The Artist's Magazine Dec 2006, Web May 2008
Southwest Art, April, 2008
Fine Art Connoisseur, Oct. 2008
Wildlife Art Magazine, Feb. 2008
Texas Monthly, May 2008
Austin, Magazine, June, 2008
Various newspapers nationwide... (See recent review)
BOOK: Last Year on the Farm : A Story of Change, 2008
Shows and Events and Workshops
Click here to see where I will be this year:
http://www.v-vaughan.com/art/workshop_show_calendar.htm
Special Projects:
Passing America: The Great Plains....exhibits being scheduled for 2012
"Last Year on the FARM"- click to view ALL 365 paintings from my Last Year...
The High Pointe Mural - click to view pictures and read about the project
Click here to go to main page www.v-vaughan.com.
all art and design ©v....vaughan