Artist: Jeremy Vaughan
Jeremy Vaughan grew up in Middle Musquodoboit, NS, where he was surrounded at home by his mother teaching children's art classes, a pottery studio upstairs, friends riding bicycles around the ping pong table in the huge living room and swinging from the Tarzan rope that hung from the ceiling. After studying ceramics and photography at NSCAD University, he turned his hand to painting. In addition to many shows in Nova Scotia, he has exhibited at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Read more about Jeremy here.
What is your biggest indulgence as an artist?
Now that I am not an impoverished artist, I allow myself to buy any colour I want. I fill my shopping basket at the art store with whatever wild colour speaks to me.
What is important to you as an artist?
Trying to open myself, through gratitude, to soaking in as much of the exquisite design in nature as I can, in hopes that I can channel some of that into my paintings.
What challenges you the most in your practice?
Detaching from the inner critic.
What themes or symbols are important to you as an artist?
I love water, islands and rivers. Places where nature has built up its own grace over time.
If you were to hang one work of art by another artist in your home, which would you choose?
A painting of Geoffroy Pithon’s.