Edward Charles Vaughan

I have been an ARTIST all of my life. It is the only thing I have ever really wanted to be. I have always made art using the simple draw and paint approach so that my images go straight to the canvas. I know art is not a real necessity to survive but it should be part of something in everyone’s life. ART allows one to decorate the imagination, and gives the mind a chance to escape for even a few seconds and revert to childlike thoughts or become amazed by a visual and dynamic thought process. To be mesmerized by the Sistine Chapel or gaze in wonderment at Lavender Mist: number I or even that most amazing child’s drawing from kindergarten art time. My ART is not complex; it simply is as it looks. It is color and form arranged in a basic way that has dynamic dimension and depth. Because of its simplicity there is no hidden meaning; it is what it is. I leave it up to the observer to give it meaning and purpose, so I guess that is the hidden meaning that defines my ART. Any titles that I scribe on the back of my work are sometimes arbitrary as they only serve to indicate and distinguish one from the other. As an artist I am ever searching for the next thing that will bring me forward in my process to convey my message through visual elements and design, to make someone’s world a brighter place upon viewing or, by owning my art, enriching their lives a little each day. Edward Charles Vaughan 1971 - 1994 - 2071 The BIG PINK THING This painting and many of my paintings always represent the way I cope with the world around me. They give me something to fixate on instead of letting the havoc the world throws at me although my havoc isn't a tragic thing its more of dealing with the frustration of the mundane and mind numbing reality of everyday necessities of life the things I have to do in order to make paintings like this one. The Art that I make is Lonely Art it represents my loneliness and it's my way of coping with that loneliness as the only one who Appreciates my ART as much as I Hate My Art it seems to be curse because I don't know if anyone really likes what I'm doing. The gate to the Dream It has no Fall Or no Balance It Lives in Time Displaced