Ned Young’s art is filled with straightforward, truthful images that are blended with both memories and a roaming, childlike imagination. Ned says, “I have to be emotionally connected to a circumstance before the creative process can begin, and then, and only then, will a painting really sing. Without that very personal connection, the reason for painting doesn’t exist and without the reason it would just become a task and not an extension or a sharing of myself.”