Bruce Young – Artist
Born on 4 June, 1967.
My early years are spent pursuing a career in sales
and marketing in Johannesburg.
In 2002 I visited Cape Town and six weeks later I
moved to a beach house in Kommetjie. This was the
beginning of my journey into art.
After a year a friend and I decided to purchase basic
art materials and paint anything. The deal was that we
would split the costs and materials 50 – 50. After
unpacking the art materials I began to paint and I still
owe her 50%.
It was then that another friend encouraged me to join
her on a Thursday for a weekly art class with Denis
Hilton Lees. He is an accomplished artist who had
studied art, taught art, and is as comfortable creating a
sculpture as he is with a brush in his hand. He
currently live on the west coast with his family pursuing
his artistic dream.
I was inspired and so my journey into art began. For a
year I attended every Thursday night class and then
added Friday afternoons.
A year and over a hundred painting later I returned to
Johannesburg. I continued to explore oils, acrylics and
gouache as mediums in an effort to find my preferred
style. 2 Years after returning I found that my style
began to take on a more cubic look. No matter how I
tried to move away from the random shapes and
colours I could not. I began to realise that I had been
seduced by the cube. It is easy for me to see the world
as a series of shapes that come together to form the
complete picture.
That however was not enough, I find that I am driven to
pursue this style in an effort to find where it leads and
what the ultimate form of that expression will be. I
know that there have been more accomplished artists
in the past who have pursued this style and
successfully taken it to new places. This only serves to
inspire me to follow my own path and see where it
leads.
In between these moments of painting randomly
defines shapes that make up cubic style paintings  I
find the need to be free and to paint images without
tight boundaries.
I see painting as a journey into life, having no
boundaries in which anything is possible. It is an open
platform for exploration and discovery. Was it not for
the fact that there are no constants I would have put
the paints away a long time ago.

Bruce Young – Artist

Born 4 June, 1967, South Africa.

My early years are spent pursuing a career in sales and marketing in Johannesburg.

In 2002 I visited Cape Town and six weeks later I moved to a beach house in Kommetjie. This was the beginning of my journey into art.

After a year a friend and I decided to purchase basic art materials and paint anything. The deal was that we would split the costs and materials 50 – 50. After unpacking the art materials I began to paint and I still owe her 50%.

It was then that another friend encouraged me to join her on a Thursday for a weekly art class with Denis Hilton Lees. He is an accomplished artist who had studied art, taught art, and is as comfortable creating a sculpture as he is with a brush in his hand. He currently lives on the west coast with his family pursuing his artistic dream.

I was inspired and so my journey into art began. For a year I attended every Thursday night class and then added Friday afternoons.

A year and over a hundred painting later I returned to Johannesburg. I continued to explore oils, acrylics and gouache as mediums in an effort to find my preferred style. 2 Years after returning I found that my style began to take on a more cubic look. No matter how I tried to move away from the random shapes and colours I could not. I began to realise that I had been seduced by the cube. It is easy for me to see the world as a series of shapes that come together to form the complete picture.

That however was not enough, I find that I am driven to pursue this style in an effort to find where it leads and what the ultimate form of that expression will be. I know that there have been more accomplished artists in the past who have pursued this style and successfully taken it to new places. This only serves to inspire me to follow my own path and see where it leads.

In between these moments of painting randomly defines shapes that make up cubic style paintings  I find the need to be free and to paint images without tight boundaries.

I see painting as a journey into life, having no boundaries in which anything is possible. It is an open platform for exploration and discovery. Was it not for the fact that there are no constants I would have put the paints away a long time ago.

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