Since stepping down as captain of the England cricket team Michael has put his batting skills to canvas and combined his two passions in life – cricket and art – to create ‘artballing’ – an innovative, unusual and exciting form of modern abstract art. 

As the most successful ever English captain it’s sometimes easy to forget Vaughan the batsman - he was placed as number one in the world batting rankings with 18 centuries to his name.

‘Vaughan’s stroke play was pure artistry,’ reported The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

Using his favoured cover drives, square cuts and pull shots Michael expertly hits a paint-daubed ball at a blank white canvas to create colour abstract pieces that can be best described as a riotous and colourful mixture of Jackson Pollack meets Damien Hirst. “With my art... it’s been good to get away from cricket and switch off those thought processes required to captain at the highest level, the day-in day-out questioning of yourself and the team – the art is quite therapeutic”. As well as creating wonderful contemporary abstract pieces he re-creates some of his famous wins in artballing form – such as his Sydney 2003 innings of 183. Charting every single he scored that day with a ‘maroon’ shot on the canvas, every two he scored with a ‘red’, every four in pink, and the sole six in green resulting in a commemorative canvas by the name of 183 – making each canvas a story in itself; charting the narrative of his cricketing career.

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