Young Gallery

The Young Gallery is an art gallery in Salisbury, Wiltshire. It sits on the first floor of Salisbury Library in the city centre. The gallery holds more than four thousand objects, including paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures. Its foundation was a collection of over three hundred watercolours of Salisbury and its surroundings by Edwin Young. The gallery now displays works by artists from different periods. It also features books, manuscripts and items linked to the crime writer John Creasey. The gallery is worth visiting for its varied collections. It contains works by artists such as Edgar Barclay, William Goldsmith and Robin Tanner. Visitors can see prints by John Constable, David Hockney, Henry Moore and J. M. W. Turner. The gallery houses around two thousand books in over twenty languages. It includes book jacket designs, manuscripts and ephemera from John Creasey’s career in the 1970s. Inside, the gallery presents rooms filled with paintings, prints and sculptures. The walls display watercolours by Edwin Young alongside later works. Shelves hold books and related items in the Creasey collection. Visitors move through the space on the library’s first floor, surrounded by art and artefacts. The gallery offers a quiet place to view works spanning several centuries.