Light and colour are the focus of Joan Horsfall Young’s paintings. The artist holds a great fascination for how light behaves in the natural world. Influenced by the Neolithic Caves of Lascaux, the Barbizon School of painters, as well as the Impressionists, Young explores fragmented light as a starting point, then transposes these spontaneous moments onto the canvas with a carefully considered palette and Impressionist-inspired brushwork. Young’s works are a true testament to light and colour. Having lived in various parts of the world, the artist is intrigued by diverse geography and the common bond that unites humanity.Horsfall Young was born in Toronto, Canada and splits her time between Los Angeles, California and the Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. She studied art under Charles Goldhammer at Central Technical School, Toronto, as well as at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, England, California State University, and 5 years of travel and study throughout Monaco, Germany, and England. Young has exhibited her work at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, National History Museum of Los Angeles, the Richard Nixon Library, as well as in Vermont, Park City, Fenelon Falls, and numerous cities in California. Her work is found in private and corporate collections in the United States, Canada, Monaco, and the Cayman Islands. CV Fine Arts EducationCentral Arts School, Toronto under Charles GoldhammerStowe School, Buckinghamshire, EnglandCalifornia State University, NorthridgeFive Years Travel/Study Monaco, Frankfurt and England Solo Shows2020 Published "Visions of a Few Prophets" 2018 -Colborne Street Gallery Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada " Cottages" 2018 -TAG Gallery Museum Row, Los Angeles "Cottages"2017-TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, California, "On Water"2015- TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, California “Pretty Things”2013 – TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, California “Back to Basics”2011 – TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, California “abc…..z”2010 - TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, California “Caught in Time” 2008 - TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California “Thick and Thin”2006 - TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California ”Tender Touches”2005 - Louise’s Trattoria, Santa Monica, California, “Works”2004 – TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, “Joyful”2003 - TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California “More”2002 - Back on Broadway, Santa Monica, California “Works”2001 - TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, “ Searching for Truth”2001 - Debbie’s Bistro, Beverly Hills, California, "Food for Thought”2000 - TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California “Classics”1998 - TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California “West Point”1990 – Beverly Hills Women's Club, “Joan Horsfall Young, Exclusive” Selected Group Show 2021 Hilbert Museum at Chapman University CAC Gold Metal Juried Exhibition2021 Frederick Weisman Museum at Pepperdine University, Juried exhibition 2020 Winner McMichael Museum of Canadian Art Virtual Plein Air Exhibition 2020 Sumptous Tag Gallery 2020 California Art Club Virtual Welcome to California 2019 " Trees" Colborne Gallery, Fenelon Falls, Ontario Canada 8 19 - 10 19 2019 Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains Santa Paula Museum, California 7 19 - 11 19 2019 California Art Club Gold Metal Show Pasadena Museum of California Art 2019 Jonathon Art Foundation2018 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, 107th Gold Metal Juried Exhibition 2018 Frederick Weisman Museum On Location in Malibu juried exhibition 2017 California Art Club, Gold Metal Exhibition, The Autry Center of the American West, Los Angeles 2016 California Art Club, Gold Medal Exhibition, The Autry Center of the American West, Los Angeles2016 Saint Mary's College , Museum of Art, Moraga "Reflections" Juried Exhibition2015 Frederick Weisman Museum On Location In Malibu Juried Exhibition2015 California Art Club, Gold Medal Exhibition, The USC Fisher Art Museum2015 Saga Fine Art , Monrovia, CA2014 Richard Nixon Library Portraits of the Fallen Exhibition2014 California Art Club, Gold Medal Exhibition, The Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles2014 Ledgendary Landmarks of California, California Art Club Gallery, at the Old Mill2013- California Art Club 102 nd Juried Art Exhibition, The USC Fisher Art Museum2013 Home, (Yearnings of a soldier far from home) Malaga Cove Library Gallery, CA2013 Segil Fine Art, Monrovia, CA2013 Debra Huse Gallery, Balboa Island, CA2013 Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA2013 Small Works, Segil Fine Art, Monrovia, CA2013- H2O Ebb and Flow juried exhibition, Segil Fine Art, Monrovia, CA2013- Portraits of the Fallen Memorial Exhibition, USC Hillel Art Gallery, Los Angele2014-2013 - 2012, 2011, 2010 Randy Higbee Gallery 6 x 6 juried show2014-2013 - 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 Jonathon Art Foundation Art Auction2012 – FrederickR Weisman Museum, Malibu California, “On Location in Malibu” Juried Exhibition 2012 – California Art Club, 101st Gold Metal Exhibition, The Autry National Center of The American West, Los Angeles, Juried Exhibition 2012 - Los Angeles Municiple Art Gallery at Barnsdale. Symbiosis of Landscape Painting and Enviornomental Awareness, Juried Exhibition2012 - Segil Fine Arts , Monrovia, California, “From Field to Table”, Juried Exhibition2011 - Terrell Moore Gallery, Portraits of the Fallen Memorial Exhibition2011 - CCAA Museum of Art ,Juried Show2010 - 99 th Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Pasadena Museum of California Art. Pasadena, CA Juried Exhibition2010 - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Los Angeles, Ring Cycle Juried Exhibition2010 - California Art Club at the Old Mill Gallery2009 - The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Malibu. California, “On Location in Malibu” Juried Exhibition2009 - 98th Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California Juried Exhibition2009 - Jonathon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California2009 - California Art Club at the Old Mill2009 - Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington Vermont. “California’s Landscapes and Legacy”2008 - Los Angeles World Affairs Council2008 - Jonathon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California2008 - 97th Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California Juried Exhibition2008 - California Art Club at the Old Mill Gallery2007 - Jonathon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California2007 - 96th Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Pasadena, California, Juried Exhibition.2007 - United States Military Academy, Associate of Graduates, WestPoint, New York2007 - California Art Club at the Old Mill Gallery2006 - 2008 The Grocers Gallery, Fenelon Falls Ontario, Canada2006 - Jonathon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California2006 - 95th Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Pasadena Museum of California Art, California, Juried Exhibition2006.- Frederick R Weisman Museum, Malibu, California. “On Location in Malibu”2006 - California Art Club, Old Mill Gallery,2005 - Jonathon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California2004 - California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California Summer Show2004 – California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica California, Winter Show2004 - Jonathon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California2003 - Sturgeon Point Invitational Exhibition, Sturgeon Point, Ontario, Canada2002 - Graystone Manor, invitational exhibition2002 - 92nd Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena California. Juried Exhibition2001 - Oil Painters of America, Juried National Exhibition, Zantman Gallery, Palm Dessert, California2001 - Occidental College. Juried exhibition Eagle Rock, California2000 - Tag Gallery Santa Monica, California, “Classics” UCLA Studio Tour1998 - Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibition, juried exhibition1998 - Santa Monica High School Art Tour, juried exhibition1997 - TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, “New Members” 2 person exhibition1997 - Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibition, juried exhibition1996 - Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibition, juried exhibition1996 - 87th Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Pasadena Museum of History, Pasadena, California1995 - 86th Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Los Angeles, Arboretum, Los Angeles, California1995 - Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibition, Carneigie Art Museum juried exhibition,1995 - Studio tour UCLA Art Collectors, Ojai, California1994 - 1998 Montecito Frame and Gallery, Montecito, California1994 - 85th Gold Metal Exhibition, California Art Club, Brand Library, Glendale, California1991 - Beverly Hills/Cannes Sister City Exhibition, juried exhibition1991 - Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains, juried Exhibition. Winner Best Painting1990 - City of Beverly Hills Diamond Jubilee Art Exhibit,1989 - Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard California, juried exhibition1989 - Ojai Valley Art Center, Ojai, California, juried exhibition1989 - Chim Gregg Art Gallery, La Puente, California, Juried Exhibition1989 - Massarello Pottery, Ojai California, juried exhibition1988 - Jonathon Art Foundation, Los Angeles California1885 – California Art Club, 85th Gold Metal Exhibition,Brand Library, Glendale1985 - 86 Cleveland Art Gallery, Park City, Utah1983 - Glendale Savings, Los Angeles, California1982 - North Valley Art League, Redding California, juried exhibition1980 - 1985 Affair in the Garden, BH Art League annual exhibt Beverly Hills, California1980 - 1990- Top of the Mart Gallery, B. H. Art League, Los Angeles Publications2020 Visions ( of some prophets ) Typecraft Pasadena2018 Cottages by Type Craft, Pasadena2011 ABC By A7 !books.com 2010 American Art Collector, Artist Focus January 20102009 Bennington Center for the Arts. ‘California’s Landscape and Legacy”2009 Frederick R Weisman Museum, Malibu, “On Location in Malibu”2009 California Art Club Gold Metal Exhibition Catalogue, 92nd93rd, 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th99th, 101st, 102nd, 103rd, 104th,105th, 106th, 107th, 108th , 110th2008 Pelican Hill Artists Catalogue2006 Frederick R Weisman Museum, Malibu, “On Location in Malibu”2004 Plein Air Magazine December2004 Brentwood Magazine December2000 Joshua, an Early General A& I books.com 2000 May/June , Art of the West, March/April 2002, Sept October 20031997 March CAC Newsletter, February 20001996 Designing with Fabric, Carol Soueck K. King Ph.D. P1081989 American References, The California Art Review; Les Krantz, American References, Copy right 19891983 - Glendale Savings, Los Angeles, California Corporate Collections709 Signals Corps, Canadian Army; limited edition poster available at the Canadian War Museum. Painting hanging in officer’s mess, Fort York, TorontoI.B.M. TokyoI.B.M. U.S.A.Beverly Hills Education FoundationBeverly Hills Parent Teacher AssociationDowntown Women's Center, Los AngelesThe Bell Inn Aston Clinton, BuckinghamshireVenture Tec Co. Inc. TorontoGibraltar Savings, CaliforniaPitkin County Bank, Aspen, ColoradoLakefield College School, CanadaPelican Hill Resort, Newport, CA Select Private CollectionsMr. and Mrs. John Craig Eaton, TorontoMr. and Mrs. Kevin Hackler, Minneapolis, Minnesota,Mrs. Joyce Getty, Los Angeles/ San FranciscoTim Wisner and Chris Van Lierop, Sturgeon Point, OntarioThe Bell Inn, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, EnglandSir Neil and Lady Pixie Shaw, Ascott, EnglandMr. and Mrs. Richard Thornhill, Oxfordshire, EnglandMr. and Mrs. Peter Taylor, MonacoJudge Irving Feffer, Beverly HillsMr. and Mrs. Charles Isreal, Aspen, ColoradoMr. and Mrs. David Milner, Calgary AlbertaMs. Maureen Manex, Calgary, AlbertaMr. and Mrs. Steven Trafton Freeland WashingtonMr. and Mrs. George Stern, Los AngelesMrs. Michelle Schilling, Belize, Camen Islands Others On Her Art" At a time when technique is shunned as anathema to creativity, it's a pleasure to find Mrs. Young concerned with the same challenges the Masters wrestled with; composition and undiscovered beauty..." Robert Venger for Valley News." If you have an office complex with huge bare walls you might want to consider some big juicy abstracts. But if you have a warm home with some intimate corners, you might consider the small landscapes and still lifes of Joan Young. They are lovely little smile inducers" Stewart Salsbury for the Beverly Hills Magazine.“You may have to set aside your particular political leanings to fully enjoy Young’s technically accomplished, almost anachronistic celebrations of “dress gray” pageantry. I, for one, am drawn to the unusual subject matter and careful compositions of these paintings….” Previews Stephen Jenkins, Art Week, February 1998“Young’s work is more pensive. Her oils are executed on rag paper, giving an interesting rough hewn texture to her paintings, despite her sure handed brush work”. Rachel Donahue, Art of the Matter, Santa Monica News 3.14 97 Vol.111# 12“Talk about a change of pace. Two years ago, J.H.Y. made a strong impression with her series of paintings depicting cadet formations and graduation parades at West Point, striking not only for their technical assurance but also for the lack of irony with which the artist approached her unusual (in our era) subject matter. Having apparently graduated from rendering the academy’s anachronistic pageantry, Young now turns to flowers…. Perhaps the very same blooms and buds that those West Point boys might well have gone on to trample underfoot in their war games. “In previous times our forefathers had daily access to flower gardens,” Young explains. “ In this electronic age we miss having the energy that comes from our earth. Paintings of flowers exude a sense of spirituality when redefined in our personal environment.” Growing just this side of Hallmark Card Gardens, Young’s flowers are buttery and fragrant, though I wouldn’t mind the occasional appearance of her earlier cadets, perhaps standing at attention and saluting a vase of lilacs and daisies. Stephen Jenkins, Artweek, Vol31 Issue2 Feb. 2000 The Artist On Her Work"My influences have almost always predated this century; from the Neolithic Caves of Lascaux through the Brooding Barbison painters to the colourful Impressionists. I love painting "spontaneous opulence" using thick buttery paint and a luscious full brush to remind us of more gentle times; a woman sewing, fresh flowers from the garden, children sailing, and formal family portraits are favourite subjects. My paintings are designed to complete the harmony and evoke tranquility in their hanging place rather then to control its environment." PrintersGiclee Prints published by Duganne Ateliers, Santa Monica, CaliforniaPoster Prints published by Accu Litho Services, Mississauga, Canada Haddad’s Fine Art, postersVirtual Art Solutions, glicee printsGreg Young Publishing Video ProductionsCo-star instructor/Artist 1 hour, Cine Arts 7 Art Works MemberOil Painters of AmericaCalifornia Art Club, Artist MemberTAG The Artists’ Gallery and has served on the board nine years