Welcome to Greg Vaughan's new website. You will find some of Greg's one of a kind paintings, mixed media and custom airbrushing here.
Take a trip through the mind of "Von Poot" and experience some of the bizarre thoughts put into painting. Greg's art can best be described as surrealistic Lowbrow with a touch of Kustom Kulture.
We invite you to look at all of the people Greg has met and worked for in the last twenty years of his art journey.
Greg's journey as an artist started long before he knew he was going to make a living painting and creating art. At the age of 4, he ran to his mother with a drawing he had worked on for hours and said, "Look, look at my drawing of me Mom."
His mom replied to the small, penciled dots in the center of the paper, "It's beautiful, but what is it?
"It's me! Hiding in a snowbank."
His mother knew then he would become an artist at some point.
Greg's first career was as a professional hockey player with the Erie Blades. He decided he needed to get into something more stable and decided to follow the suggestion from his grandfather about becoming a sign painter.
At the age of 19, Greg went to a local signwriter, Fred Jones, and asked for a job. Fred recommended that Greg look at the Butera School of Art, a sign painting and commercial art school in Boston. Greg attended Butera for two years and worked tirelessly at his new craft. While still in school, Greg was asked to paint many high profile projects including goldleafing the Copley Plaza and airbrushing the guitar bar at the Boston Hard Rock Cafe. His talents and desire helped Greg get noticed in the film industry. He worked on many feature films with a guest spont in "You've Got Mail" as a signwriter with Tom Hanks.
After seven years working on the east coast, Greg headed to California and ended up deciding to move back to NYC with coaxing from Goldie Hawn, who wanted Greg to design and paint her new penthouse and work on her film "Out of Towners".
After a year or so in NYC, as well as a quick stint working to open the new Islands of Adventure theme park in Florida, Greg decided it was time to head back to his Cape Cod roots and fulfill a 15 year old promise to his mother by opening Vaughan Art.
Vaughan Art has been one of the east coast's premier sign and air brush studios. Working on race cars, custom bikes and creating outrageous art has been a mainstay in his business. Vaughan Art is also a place to have your truck lettered and have all your sign problems remedied.
We invite you to stop in or take a tour through some of Greg's past works and art pieces. We hope you enjoy the site which was specifically designed by Tourque9, good friends with Vaughan Art for years.
