THE artist said to be the inspiration for Pink Floyd's song See Emily Play has opened her first exhibition in Edinburgh.

Emily Young's sculpture exhibition Singing Stone opens at Bourne Fine Art in Edinburgh today.

Young, considered one of the foremost living sculptors in the UK, comes from a family rich in writers, artists, and politicians. Her uncle was Sir Peter Scott, founder of the World Wildlife Fund, and her grandmother was a sculptor and pupil of Auguste Rodin.

She works in a compound open to the elements in a triangle of West London between a flyover, a railway line, and a bus depot.

It is claimed Syd Barrett's famous hippie anthem See Emily Play was named after Young, who knew the band members. She attended Holland Park School with her friend, the actress Angelica Huston, and the pair used to skip classes to watch Pink Floyd at The Roundhouse.

Emily Walsh, director of Bourne Fine Art, said: "Her sculptures fall into three subjects: large heads; slender torsos; and translucent discs up to two metres in diameter.

"The stone she uses is extraordinary and beautiful, from silky smooth alabaster to royal blue lapis lazuli."

Young said: "When the qualities of a stone are revealed it feels as if it has a voice, like a melodious song."