Welcome to the natural world of
Anita Young
Inspired by nature
Passionate about wolves
ANITA YOUNG is a painter of the natural world based in Cheshire, England. She was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1956. She has lived in the village of Stockton Heath with husband Andrew since 1985 and works from her studio in Stockton Heath in beautiful Cheshire.
Anita’s work is influenced first and foremost by her deep love of nature. Specialising in wildlife, she celebrates the beauty of the natural world through the medium of pastel, focusing primarily upon mammals and birds. Her aim is to depict the essence and the spirit, as well as the visual reality, of her subject in as fine a detail as her chosen medium will allow. Anita’s lifelong interest in natural history, animal behaviour, world cultures, folklore and philosophy all combine to strongly inform her choice of painting themes.
Anita has an all-
Anita’s passion for, and knowledge of, this magnificent creature as her primary painting subject is fed by ongoing self-
“I feel blessed to have been bestowed a gift which enables me to express my love of nature, and especially privileged to be able to use that gift to help contribute in some small way to the cause of conservation. For me the wolf has more than fulfilled its ancient symbolic role as teacher and pathfinder. It has helped me to find my voice – for which I owe the wolf an eternal debt of gratitude”.
Anita Young
Creative Development
Anita arrived at the profession of wildlife painting via a rather unconventional route, leaving behind a 20 year career in business in the year 2000 to study canine behaviour and animal welfare, and also embarking upon a journey of re-
Portfolio and teaching
Whilst gradually developing her portfolio of original work, Anita takes private commissions for paintings of both wild and domestic/companion animals. She presents demonstrations and workshops to local art groups and offers tuition through her programme of ‘Painting Nature in Pastel Pencil’ courses. one of her projects has been to begin the creation of a series of narrative paintings exploring some of the challenges facing the natural world today – ‘Pictures of a Thousand Words’. The first painting in this series is a composition entitled ‘Glowing Embers of Ice’, released as a Limited Edition Print in October 2014, and featuring arctic wolves.
In November 2014 Anita became the first recipient of the Association’s Inaugural Chairman’s Award for her work in raising the profile of animal art and wildlife conservation.