Nelson Young: Art from the heart
He’s a charter member of the Belizean artists club…and Nelson Young keeps getting better and better. Janelle Chanona reports on his latest exhibition at the Image Factory.
Janelle Chanona, Reporting
The work of forty-four year old Caye Caulker native Nelson Young may be reminiscent of Pablo Picasso, but the cubist images in his latest exhibit come, not from any highbrow museum but straight from the artist’s heart and soul.
Inspiration can come from the childhood memories of island life, like that of “Faces and Fishes”, a vivid interpretation of the scenes at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve, but all of his pieces capture the human eyes.
Nelson Young, Artist
“I feel like face is an everyday thing that we have to face. And I feel like still, a lot of people are afraid to face them face, you know what I mean, people would usually all the time escape communication and contact sometime because they don’t trust. Sometime they feel like maybe they will make their life more complicated, rather than better. And I feel like I promote face and people because I feel like its a reality we will all have to face, we will all have know one another more.”
“Me within myself, I seh well, who is the source of my inspiration and I can only seh God because its what I pray to to get inspiration to do all my work because I don’t like to copy, I like to do the vision of within.”
In this exhibit, Young has also decided to focus on the impact of culture on modern man.
Nelson Young
“I feel like we have mostly the majority of the people inna fu we country dah African descendants. That’s why I am trying to magnify that because I don’t want us to be ashamed of that, I want us to be proud and happy of that.”
“I am expecting the people that are in the ambition of art to also have progress and prosperity because this might encourage them. Because if they see a man like me can prosper from scratch without education, they that have the opportunity for education and learning supposed to have more confidence in accomplishing something.”
Reporting for News 5, I am Janelle Chanona.
Everyone is invited to view the artwork of Nelson Young at the Image Factory on North Front Street, free of cost. The exhibit will run until August seventh.
