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Robert Young
Robert Young is a Canadian artist whose practice spans ceramics and photography. After leaving art school, he began his creative career in 1974 with Mudslinger Pottery, producing functional ware and exploring Raku, Saggar, salt-firing, and lesser‑known vapour‑glazing techniques. These formative years in clay established a foundation of craftsmanship, experimentation, and material curiosity.
His interest in digital art emerged in 1986 with a Commodore Amiga 1000 and expanded through the 1990s with the arrival of digital cameras and Photoshop. Today, Robert constructs composite images from elements of his own photographs, stitching together moments, textures, and forms to create scenes that invite curiosity, emotion, and interpretation.
For more than five decades, his work has moved from the tactile world of ceramics to the layered possibilities of the digital image. This site presents a selection of those visual narratives. Robert and his wife Rosanne make their home in Penticton, British Columbia, when not travelling in search of new adventures.