08/21/2026
Excited to announce we have another new member of the Courthouse Gallery, Vaughn Butland. Vaughn is a watercolourist who's misty landscapes capture the ethereal forests and mountains around us, here in Kamloops. Visit us to experience Vaughn's paintings, they are a delight to the eye.
"Drawing and painting have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Aside from the process of creating a painting, the greatest satisfaction I get comes from the feeling that I have produced something that people appreciate. Watching a happy buyer leave my studio with a piece of art, be it a small watercolour sketch
created on a mountaintop afternoon or a large oil portrait that took weeks to accomplish, gives me that feeling. As much as I love it when people like my art, I'm not at all saddened if they don't. Art, just as beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
My formal training led to a career in commercial art and advertising. Later, circumstances had me experience many other business ventures, from imports to building design and construction supplies. In 30 years of meeting business challenges, I felt success and disappointment, but my strong desire to paint stayed
constant throughout. In 1984, I decided to paint full-time, a bold move that
brought new challenges. The satisfaction and happiness I have experienced since
making that decision more than compensate for the ups and downs of making a
living with art."
