Berwick artist Anne Vaughan exhibit set for RiverStones showing in May

Back yard daffodils and pansies by Anne Vaughan (Courtesy image)

ROCHESTER - The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, will host an exhibit during the month of May called "Climates," featuring the work of Berwick artist Anne Vaughan.

This exhibit's landscapes include lands deepened by setting or rising suns that show respect for this world and the need to safeguard it. Kris Ebbeson, the proprietor of RiverStones Custom Framing and manager of the Franklin Gallery, will hold an opening reception on Thursday, May 9, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. The public is invited and light refreshments will be served.

Vaughan paints landscapes, still lifes, abstracts and family portraits. She also creates works with political themes influenced by her advocacy for disadvantaged people and by current world events.

She has a lifelong love of art and art history and painting, and in her retirement, indulges this love in her works. Vaughn has been painting in oils for some years, but her work has increased since she and her husband retired to rural Maine in 2010 to be near children. Maine has lots of family history for her: She has four daughters (all born in Maine) and her four grandchildren all live in New England. Her father's family is from Bowdoinham, but she spent her childhood in Texas, and high school years in Massachusetts as a farmer's daughter on a dairy farm.

Vaughn has been a member of many local art associations, including the Berwick Art Association, Kittery Art Association, Seacoast Moderns, the Blackbird Studio and Gallery, and York Art Association. She also has displayed her paintings at Timeless Framing, Black Bean Café, Sole City Dance Studio, Sarah Orne Jewett House, University of Southern Maine, and in local public libraries in Berwick, Rochester, Dover, Somersworth, North Berwick, York, Durham and Gafney Library in Wakefield. Anne welcomes calls and visits from any person who would like to see her paintings.

Vaughan went to the Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law after being a paralegal, working for legal services programs involving issues of health care eligibility, housing, domestic disputes and disability claims. Throughout her career, she studied art and art history and became a docent at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

RiverStones Custom Framing and the Franklin Gallery are open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. It is located at 33 N. Main Street in Rochester. For information about the "Climates" exhibit and other RiverStones events and services, call (603) 812-1anne vu488, or send an e-mail to riverstonescustomframing@gmail.com.