Contemporary mixed media artist, Nick Young, was born in Ottawa and now resides in Toronto, Canada.  He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Toronto and practiced professionally for 10 years.  In 2009, Nick became a full-time artist and his work has now been exhibited in galleries across Canada, published in architectural and design magazines, and acquired by corporate and private collectors across the globe.

His architectural background and the urban landscape strongly influence his style.  Working in plan, section, and elevation, each painting is an abstraction and exploration of new spaces through the fundamentals of composition, texture, and colour.  Relying on intuition, rather than preconceived images, each painting is a result of layers upon layers of quick gestures.  This palimpsest approach of adding, deleting, and leaving traces of layers past, gives a strong sense of memory and atmosphere to each piece.  Most importantly, Nick’s objective through his art  is  to achieve a heightened contemplative emotional response.

Like a city’s fabric, structural and organic forms merge, and boundaries become blurred, in an attempt to create a visual poetry.

“I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music” (Joan Miro).

Education

• 2002 Bachelor of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design, University of Toronto

Canadian Millennium Scholarship

UTAP Scholarship

Thesis Honors

• 1995  Honors Commerce Degree, Year One, University of Ottawa