Donald Young started his career as a landscape designer, illness forced a change. Painting started as a form of pain relief and recuperation painting landscapes, still lifes, portraits of family members

." My mother sent my a batch of old black and white photos of family members from the 1930's I found it interesting to reimagine them in colour. My brother then asked me to paint his guitar hero Django Reinhart. Beats Paint Studio was born."

"I loved the process of looking up musicians from the past and present. Collecting footage and converting it to black and white then going through the process of brining them to life in larger than life colour."

"This took me back to a time when we were the last household in our town to get a colour TV, so when Top Of The Pops or The Old Grey Whistle Test came on we had to imagine what it looked like in full colour."

You can see a selection of his work on his website www.beatspaintstudio.com