John G. Young, M.D.
Multimedia Artist

You are invited to view works by John G. Young, M.D. from "The Creative Adventure" and other sources. The format for the exhibit is recent works first and earlier works later. If you have seen the exhibit before, you can examine the recent additions to the exhibit at the top. Starting at the other end will enable you to see the development of various styles and ideas. The exhibit will expand and develop over time, so you are invited to return to see the latest images. If you wish to make purchases from Dr. Young, go to Products from Adventures in Creativity, Inc.

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MASKS
Computer graphic collage


Sometimes it is fun to play with masks to see what movement and coverup combined produce.

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OUT OF WINTER
Computer graphic collage

This image came out from the darkness of my winter. At the time I was exploring my new interest in computer generated art for the video. It was interesting to combine the old with the new to form new images.

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THE BIG WAVE Acrylic on masonite 4' x 5'
This large painting was the culmination of a series of works exploring water. It came from the memory of many waves I watched from my home by the sea. Yet the focus was not on the water, but the interesting patterns the foam creates as the action of the wave stirs air into the water. Creative functioning is noticing what is there but not seen.

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STORM COMING Acrylic on masonite 24" x 18"
This painting flowed out of my Creative Unconscious. I had been doing many seascapes, learning how to depict the ocean. Creative inspirations will emerge, if you do the work before.

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REMBRANT Acrylic on masonite 18" x 24"
This colored line painting is of Rembrant. He made many self-portrates in his life time. Yet as artists we make self-portrates in everything we do. Art is the therapy of the soul; we have to reveal it to heal it. This style actually evolved from the primitive colors of the postimpressionistic period. Local color was less important than the value expressed.

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THE LITTLE HOUSE Acrylic on masonite 18" x 24"
The artist has to be aware of the negative shapes (the white space) as well as the positive shapes (the colored space). Both need to be interesting shapes. In this picture the negative spaces flow into the positive spaces integrating the object with the background. Changing boundaries is a key concept in creative functioning.

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FOREST AND TREES Acrylic on masonite 18" x 24"
Sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees, and we have to back off to see the whole picture. At other times we need to fill in the details to complete the picture. Both are important to creative functioning. In this painting the trunks of the trees were formed by drips of paint flowing down a slanted board. The leaves were spatters of paint flicked from the brush to the surface. The brush point was used for the details of the branches only at the end.

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MAN AND RED POT Acrylic on masonite 30" x 24"
Creative inspiration comes from within and without. Some artists will throw paint on a canvas to get the conversation going. This painting was begun this way. The shapes on the canvas take on an independent existence and speak to the creator. They set new requirements. Anyone who is involved in a creative project must be aware of the external conditions in which he or she creates.

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FOUR ROCKS Acrylic on masonite 30" x 24"
Water has always fascinated me. I grew up near it and find myself returning to it often. Water represents that ever changing flow of life as well as the unconscious source of creative living. Yet when the flow meets something solid, interesting things happen. We need the constant as well as the variable. Thus the four rocks.

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ROCK WATER Acrylic on masonite 18" x 24"
The transparency of water suggests that what we know can be as much by its absence as its presence. We know it because of how it changes our perception of reality.

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ROCK COLLAGE Watercolor collage 18" x 24"
This collage of rice paper upon rice paper creates textures as watercolor flows over the page. We get different results when we put the same material in different situations. Put yourself in different situations to find new textures of being.

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BERMUDA SHORE Watercolor collage 18" x 24" and Acrylic on masonite 18" x 24"
These two paintings show how a single image can be seen in two very different ways. The first is a watercolor collage; whereas the second uses colored lines. Two different viewpoints of the same situation can have equal validity.

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FALL STREAM
Acrylic on masonite 18" x 24"
To function creatively it is important to begin with the real. Imagination and a future only happen when you know the present and live in the now. Calm reflecting by an autumn stream is a real as it gets.

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DREAM RACE Watercolor 18" x 24"
In sailboat racing the one who gains the advantage is the one who knows how to sail into the new wind. Without your centerboard down and your sails adequately trimmed, you drift to the bottom of the fleet. It is the same in creative living. Those who respond appropriately to the winds of change are those who succeed in life.

John G. Young, M.D., Multimedia Artist

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