Russell Young has risen to become one of the most collected and sought after artists of our time.  Celebrities and collectors from the most discriminating to novice have added Russell’s works to their collections. His larger than life screenprint images from history and popular culture are compelling, daunting, and undeniable.

“My work is sort of soundtrack to my life, loves, experiences and influences. My method of working is to search, destroy and create. The images of this series have been collected from newspaper cuttings, e-bay, long correspondence with police departments throughout the world or even given by celebrities themselves. The idea to create "anti-celebrity" portraits was probably a reaction to my former career. However, they turned out to be even more beautiful and iconic. There is undeniably this attitude that is very real, in your face, a beauty that is hard to ignore. My art is a sort of soundtrack to my life, loves, experiences and influences. These would be my heroes that are missing from Art History.”

“PIG” is about the glamour of the dark side of crime, fame, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. These screenprints of notables like Elvis, Sid Vicious, Jim Morrison, Sinatra, etc. are derived from police mug shots. In their creation Young has played the dual role of visual artist and investigator; scouring police departments, eBay and obtaining photographs from the subjects themselves.

“NORTH”, is a series exploring American history as seen through the eyes of a young man from Northern England. These gritty, bare, pop-iconographic screen prints are of historic events, heroes and heroines such as Elizabeth Taylor in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, Marilyn entertaining the troops in Korea, Jimi Hendrix, The Magnificent Seven, James Dean, Jane Fonda as Barbarella, and punk icons Sex Pistols.

Russell has recently collaborated with rock photographer Henry Diltz who allowed him full access to his extensive archives of black and white photographs chronicling rock history from the late 60’s and 70’s brilliant and candid images of Jimi Hendrix at the Hollywood Bowl, Jim Morrison in concert, Pete Townsend smashing his guitar, and the Rolling Stones featuring Steven Stills on keyboards are masterfully rendered onto canvas illuminating Diltz photographs as only Russell Young can.

Russell is married to actress Finola Hughes and lives with their two young sons Dylan and Cash in New York City and Southern California.