his mind. He then spent three years as a down and out, suffering from manic depression, which affected him for the rest of his life. He eventually got his life back on track with a new wife, to whom he was married for over 30 years. He rejected the "London scene" and moved back to Manchester, where he became the country's most prolific mural artist, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He formed the mural group "Noah's Ark", which as well as producing mural art for the under-privileged in youth clubs, schools, churches and hospitals (he painted the first British hospital mural at the Duchess of York's Hospital for Babies in Manchester), offered young and disadvantaged people the opportunity to study mural painting first hand. During the 1970s he employed a variety of young people to assist and learn how to produce a mural, and he also completed many private commissions, re-creating on a smaller scale some of the success he achieved in the 1960s. These included customized shops – Barratts music shop on Oxford Road, Manchester, became a mecca for art/music students who visited to see the huge portraits of jazz and blues musicians adorning the walls, which were just a part of the complete makeover Vaughan gave the premises in 1974. In the mid-1980s he started to produce his "Victims" series of paintings, which depicted some of the horrors of modern society, and which were found to be quite controversial at the time. In his later career he returned to painting portraits – John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Gallagher and also pencil portraits of David Beckham and Jude Law. Vaughan died while awaiting a liver transplant. Personal life Vaughan was married three times. His daughter Sadie Frost wrote of "a bohemian, traveller-like childhood. We lived on a bus which we drove from Belsize Park to Morocco." She said that Vaughan was "schizophrenic at a time when nobody really talked about mental health". Vaughan was survived by five sons and two daughters. References External links Art On Wheels (video), British Pathe, 3 November 1966. David Vaughan: The Artist Who Fell from Grace, BBC Radio 4, 23 May 2013 1944 births 2003 deaths Artists from Manchester Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art