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Young was born in Denver, and grew up in western Colorado. “Camping
and fishing throughout the Rocky Mountains as a child, has been a
strong influence on me and my work,” Young stated. He attended
Colorado Institute of Art, hoping to find a direction in art. After
graduation he moved to Dallas to pursue the commercial art field. Even with a successful
illustration career, the landscape was always
calling him back. In 1989, he returned to Colorado to begin
landscape painting
full time. Young enjoys painting the rural life of the west
and the
ranches that dot the mountain valleys and river bottoms. He
comments, “Though I’m a landscape painter, I like introducing hints of man’s
presence in the landscape. Sometimes I feel I’m in a race to paint a
disappearing way of life. It’s hard to watch so many of the family
farms and ranches being swallowed up by development.”
Young clings strongly to the importance of painting from life. He
feels that painting from life was the most important stepping stone for
his career. Most days you can find him painting along a back road or
beside a mountain lake. “I still spend about 50 percent of my time
painting on location. That’s what drew me to painting - the love of
being out in nature and trying to accurately capture it on canvas. I
still get excited when I head out for a day of painting. It doesn’t
matter if I paint in Alaska or out my front door, it helps keep me
fresh to paint on location.”
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