Martha Vaughn studied photography at the International Centre of Photography in New York in the late 1970s and then took courses at the Maine Photographic Workshop for many summers. In 1982 she attended the Ansel Adams Workshop in Carmel, California. Frequent trips to Europe and Asia, among other places, gave her the opportunity to photograph the landscape and architecture of exotic places with emphasis on colour, light and abstraction.
She says: “I have also been interested in still life and now the simple forms of nature give me inspiration. I photographed in black and white early on, then began to hand colour my prints and finally worked only in colour. I enjoyed working on printing and turned to making transfer and Polaroid transfer prints, enhancing them with pencil, oil and pastels. At the moment, most of my work is digital and printed with a laser printer on watercolour paper.” In the 1980s and 90s she exhibited her work in galleries and museums in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Bermuda. Lately, she has had exhibitions in New Jersey and locally at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, Edinburgh Gallery at the Bermuda Society of the Arts, and her work has been selected in several Bacardi Limited Biennial exhibitions at the Bermuda National Gallery.

	Artist's statement "Looking to nature for a source of inspiration, these images were found by the sea and in gardens in some, I was looking for abstractions, but in others, I was taken by the simple beauty of the object. This is an outgrowth of my love of the natural world and the elegance of us its forms that surround us in the landscape."