An Exhibition at Olympia London						About Keith Vaughan Brief Biography
Finistere: Group of Fishermen. 1957. Oil on Canvas. 36 x 28 Private Collection. © Estate of the Artist
	Untaught, though tutored at Christ’s Hospital, Vaughan developed his skill through constant and unremitting practice. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector conscripted to the Pioneer Corps. This entailed hard physical labour by day, but also provided endless conscripts and prisoners of war for him to use as models. Bivouacking and living in ill-lit huts must have inspired his love of tone against tone. The early works have a haunting intimacy; the first studies are of men who are unselfconscious, and vulnerable, concerned only to survive.