Emily Young

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This page is about the artist. For the fictional character from the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, see Emily Young (Twilight)

Emily Young is a British sculptor and is considered one of the foremost sculptors in Britain today ^[1]. She was born in London in 1951 into a family of artists and writers. Her grandmother Kathleen Scott was a pupil of Auguste Rodin and widow of the famous explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who subsequently married Emily's paternal grandfather, the politician and writer Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet. Her father Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet was also a politician and writer. Her uncle was the famous ornithologist, conservationist and painter, Sir Peter Scott.

[edit] Early life

She received her secondary education at Putney High School, Holland Park School, Friends School Saffron Walden, and the King Alfred School London. First interested in painting, she spent her youth in London, Wiltshire and Italy before she went to the Chelsea School of Art for one term in 1968. She also studied at the St Martin's School of Art. In the late sixties and seventies, she travelled widely, visiting Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, France and Italy, Africa and the middle east. She also lived in the United States. It was during these years of travelling that she developed her broad view of art.

In the mid 1960s, she was involved in the psychedelic scene of London, and has been rumoured to be the inspiration for the song "See Emily Play", written by Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett. During the seventies and eighties, she lived and worked with the late Simon Jeffes, proprietor of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. They had one son, Arthur, born 1978. She produced the artwork for various album covers for the band.