Contemporary mixed media artist Nick Young was born in Ottawa and now resides in Toronto He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Toronto and practiced professionally for 10 years In 2009 Neil became a fulltime 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 globeHis 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 colour composition and texture 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 pieceLike a citys fabric structural and organic forms merge and boundaries become blurred in an attempt to create a visual poetryI try to apply colours like words that shape poems like notes that shape music Joan MiroNick Young is represented in Ottawa Ontario by Koyman Galleries