Blamire Young - Embrace, watercolour; Festival, watercolour and gouache. Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (Vaster Than Emptiness), watercolour
William Blamire Young (1862 – 1935) was an English-born Australian illustrator who mastered watercolour. Young began working as maths teacher, appointed in 1885 to Katoomba College, New South Wales. Young practiced his painting during his spare time and received some instruction form cartoonist, Phil May. Young's first visual arts appointment was art advertising manager to the Austral Cycle Agency, Melbourne. He successfully exhibited and sold watercolours in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1911, Young was commissioned to produce designs for the first Commonwealth of Australia stamps. Young served as firearms instructor during the First World War. In his later years, he worked as an art critic for the Australian newspaper, The Herald.
