Bud Young

My carving started in 1990. Decorative decoys were the first challenges, followed by other carving. Soapstone entered the realm of my abilities because of the insistence of friend and fellow carver Kevin Peters. He was right; something hidden in stone can be coaxed out if the spirit is willing and if your mind is open to all possibilities. Thanks, Kevin.

I moved to the Yukon Territory in 2002 from Christina Lake, B.C. and have become involved with the Yukon Arts Society, the Yukon Humane Society as a volunteer the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous as a Board member and a member of Yukon Artists @ Work.

My work is scattered over North America, Europe and Asia. The Yukon Territorial Government has purchased many of my pieces as gifts for visiting foreign dignitaries and Canadian ministers. The most appreciated award I have received was the People’s Choice Award at the Great Northern Arts Festival 2006 in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. I was also privileged to be one of five Yukon artists chosen to participate in a two-week trip in March of 2008 to Salekhard, Russia, for a collaboration with fifteen Siberian artists to complete a single piece of art work that is currently on tour in Russia.

I hope you enjoy my art as I have enjoyed creating it. Just a closing thought from me to you: “Anything and everything is possible.” May the good spirits walk with you and the bad ones fall behind.