Stuart J Young – Visual Artist
Stuart J Young explores form, colour, and structure through painting and sculpture, creating works that examine the interplay between material, space, and perception. His practice investigates how objects and surfaces hold tension, rhythm, and narrative, inviting viewers to experience both presence and process in the artwork itself.
Stuart’s work is informed by an interest in collaborative dialogue and site-responsive projects, including joint explorations with Eila Goldhahn that engage movement, photography, and immersive installations.
In his paintings, Stuart J Young explores the interplay of form, colour, and structure. Using layers of Indian ink, pigment, and subtle shifts in tone, he creates surfaces that invite close looking and sustained attention. The works examine the tension between abstraction and suggestion, writing and mark making, surface and depth, drawing the viewer into a meditative engagement with space and material. Each painting is a reflection of process as much as image, revealing the rhythms and textures that emerge through attentive making.
Prayers
In Prayers, Stuart J Young explores the calligraphy of sacred texts. Some of these works resemble mandalas, while others seem to open up voids and unknown universes. Using Indian ink, watercolour, and natural pigments on paper, Young conveys fragility through an embodied, visible language. In a concentrated, mindful state, his haptic making enters a space between the human and the ‘other’.
During 2024 and 2025, Prayers toured Balabrook Retreat House on Dartmoor, Birdwood House Gallery in Totnes, Poolhaus Blankenese in Hamburg, Germany, and The Plymouth Art Weekender.