, England Her mother was the writer and commentator
Elizabeth Young, her father,
Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, a politician, conservationist and writer. Emily Young's paternal grandparents were the politician and writer
Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, and the sculptor
Kathleen Scott, the widow of the polar explorer
Robert Falcon Scott. Her uncle was the ornithologist, conservationist and painter, Sir
Peter Scott, who founded the
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Emily Young 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 attended the
Chelsea School of Art for one term in 1968 and also studied at
Saint Martin's School of Art. In the late 1960s and 1970s, she travelled widely, visiting Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, France and Italy, Africa and the Middle East. She may have been the inspiration for the song "
See Emily Play", written by
Pink Floyd's
Syd Barrett. During the 1970s and 1980s, she lived and worked with
Simon Jeffes, leader of the
Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and had one son,
Arthur, born in 1978.
Work Young's sculpture is held in many public as well as private collections. Some of her permanent installations can be seen in
St Paul's Churchyard and
Salisbury Cathedral. Young's
Lunar Disc 1 was installed at
Loyola University Chicago in 2011. File:Warrior Poet by Emily Young 03.jpg|
Warrior Poet, (2011),
Victoria and Albert Museum, London File:Emily Young à Paternoster Square.jpg|
Angel I to IV,
Paternoster Square, London Archangel Michael, St Pancras New Church, London.JPG|
Archangel Michael,
St Pancras New Church, London ==References==