Adrienne Vaughan is a Tāmaki-based painter, driven by her boundless fascination and exploration of her mediums. In which she produces beautiful abstract paintings that employ an enriched vocabulary of colour, line, shape and form, and brings them into a world of her own. The forms themselves hover in a space of peculiarity, hinting to a kind of still life with a touch of surrealism, embodying a mysterious cast of characters.

Her current exhibition at Anna Milles Gallery Blue Myrtle, showcases a shift in Vaughan's painting practice, a slowing down of sorts, to allow for a new sense of intimacy with the painted surface. A softening and more tender approach to her use of pattern making within the canvas. letting the paints inherit materiality and its trace of application linger on the painting's surface, creating its own sense of pattern making within the painted image. 

Maya had a kōrero with Adrienne Vaughan about the show and overall practice.