To accompany the series of artworks 'Where to draw the line', I am writing a book. The book is part autobiographical, part art explanation and part philosophy which sounds like quite a peculiar mix!

Over the years, I have learnt an awful lot about my own mental health and the state within which I feel I exist. The book tells of how I came to be drawing in the first place, excuses the poor excuse for art that I am drawing and also how I became to create my theory that all humans exist in one of four mental states.

If anyone has any experience of / contacts  in book publishing, please get in touch via hello@mryoung.uk

To link to the eventual launch of the book, I am intending to submit an application to present a TED talk.

This may, or may not, come to fruition but is a step in the process of self-healing / self-excusing and self-rebuilding that the book process is helping to trigger.

A new project of 95 images. Each of my circular designs represents 'being'. Whether that is being human is up to the interpretation of the viewer. I can't draw things that look like the things they're meant to look like so these representational images suggest, to me at least, what it is to be a 'being' - the circles representing the circle of life, constantly feeling like you're going round in circles or whatever else you want to impose as a meaning. The multi-layered interior represents the different layers that we are composed of. Worries, fears, experiences, moments of joy all serve to wrap up our 'being' to the exterior view we portray to others.

I  tend not to work in colour as I am not particulary clued up on what colour 'goes' with which other colour. The older I have become the more I have seen life in black and white with a loss of the colour scale in between.

From an arty point of view, I also don't like the way that when a colour pen touches a point on the paper (or bike frame!) it darkens as a double dip of ink has been used. Working in black doesn't present this problem so aesthetically it appeals to me more. However, I am trying to expand my comfort zone not only as an artist, but as a human making their way through an ever changing world.