David Young started painting in oils
during his late ‘teens and has gone on to become one of
the West Country’s most notable landscape painters.
During his early youth
his family returned to the rural Devon hamlet from where
his father had been an evacuee.
It has been the upbringing in this country community that has
forged his outlook and subsequent expression in art.
These Devon people, sadly long gone, have given him an
enduring love of the land, the soil, traditions,
seasons and wildlife.
 

His early grounding in the natural environment has led to a
lifelong learning curve of mankind's relationship with the earth. From the early idealism of people such as John Seymour to the current frightening but revealing
predictions of James Lovelock his way of doing things has usually been a step
back from the mainstream.
The joy of painting something that seemed eternal has more recently
been replaced by the insecurity of depicting a rapidly changing world.
Features that epitomise a landscape, in his case the mosses and lichens that
shroud the damp valleys of Dartmoor could, like everything else, now
hang in the balance.
For him it can now feel like painting a lover who is
about to face the gallows.