As an abstract painter, Caroline Young seeks to share a sense of wonder, curiosity, and joy with the viewer. Color serves as a central force in her work, interacting with shape, line, and space to create dynamic compositions that often hint at human and animal forms. These subtle suggestions invite viewers to imagine, interpret, and construct their own stories. In parallel, she paints her own—rooted in mystery, nature, spirituality, wilderness, and the wild places she longs to roam. She travels as she paints.

Guided by intuition, her process is fluid and expressive, marked by an immersive state of focus where time seems to fall away. This meditative rhythm allows her to work with freedom, presence, and a visceral sense of flow. As one of her favorite artists, Brian Rutenberg, describes: “Art happens when the intellectual and visceral collide head-on at 200 mph; when thinking and feeling smash so violently into one another that they fuse into a third thing.”

For Caroline Young, painting is an ongoing journey of exploration and discovery—an opportunity to remain a lifelong student, to experiment, and to detach from rigid outcomes. She embraces the unexpected, often surprised by what emerges on the canvas. This freedom to explore and to reclaim a childlike sense of wonder is essential to her practice. She is inspired by Michael Mew’s belief that “the meaning of a piece often becomes apparent only in the end. It’s like finding a secret message that you unknowingly sent yourself.”

Ultimately, she considers the act of making art a conversation with the universe—one that continues to unfold, reveal, and expand with every brushstroke.