Amber Young

Amber Young has always painted what surrounds her. The land she grew up on – a pond, a lake, the Acadian forest of Hampton, New Brunswick. These have all shaped her development as a person and an artist.

Born in 1972 in New Brunswick, Young began painting as a child. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in 1995. Studies in ceramics followed at Sheridan College from 1995-1996 and from 1997-99, she studied traditional Chinese ink and brush painting under the teacher Hwang Lu De in Tainan, Taiwan. Young completed a Bachelor of Art Education in 2002 from Mount Saint Vincent University and NSCAD.

Young has taught art at the high school level since 2010 where she has also curated many student exhibitions. For the past twenty years, she has maintained an active studio practice and has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions primarily in New Brunswick, but also in Nova Scotia and more recently at the Artspace Warehouse in Los Angeles, USA. Her work has been included in the Marion McCain Atlantic juried Exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Young’s artwork is in many private collections as well as in the collections of the Bank of Montreal (Moncton), Ralph Green & Associates (Saint John), TD Bank (Saint John), Deloitte (Saint John), TD Bank Financial Group (Toronto), RBC Dominion Securities, (Saint John), Telus (Toronto), and Vault 15 (Saint John) .