Vincent Devine currently has a major exhibition running in Tullamore. The Van Gogh triptych, the Daniel O'Connell portrait, the large-scale works from the Regenesis show — those are in Ireland. What's here, exclusively at Creed Gallery, are two new original paintings: Abundance and Capella, both just arrived and available now.
A Practice That Doesn't Stand Still
Devine is Irish, born in 1986, from Tullamore in County Offaly. He learned to draw at the age of four and to paint at nine, studied Visual Communications at the Technological University of the Shannon, and has spent the years since building a practice of unusual scope — not the kind that specialises in one subject and refines it, but one that moves purposefully between major portraiture, mythological animal painting, surrealist landscapes, and the Neo-Dimensionist series of portraits, which engage directly with identity, mental health, and the interior life of their subjects.
His record-breaking portrait of Vicky Phelan — the Irish health campaigner whose refusal to sign a non-disclosure agreement during her 2018 legal battle brought national attention to the CervicalCheck scandal — achieved national coverage in Ireland including features on RTÉ News and Nationwide. The Triptych Portrait realised €58,000 at auction. His work has since been commissioned by University College Dublin and the All-Island Cancer Research Institute to depict the complexities of cancer through painting, and has been exhibited in Hong Kong, Toronto, Miami, and extensively across the UK and Ireland. Creed Gallery is the only gallery in the UK currently representing him.
Abundance
The stag stands motionless in a field lit green by an aurora that has no business being over an Irish midlands landscape. Its antlers catch gold from a light source the painting never explains, because explanation isn't the point. Abundance is about stillness that has weight — an animal that occupies its landscape with such completeness that the impossible sky behind it starts to feel inevitable.
This piece belongs to the thread in Devine's practice that draws from Celtic mythology and Irish folklore rather than the Western equestrian tradition — a body of work that includes Midas and the surrealist tree series, Ambigutree and Sky Clover. What connects them is the same instinct: subjects that carry mythological resonance, rendered with realist precision into environments that answer to dreamlike logic rather than observable fact.
Original acrylic on canvas | 98 x 148 cm | 104 x 153 cm framed | Black frame
Capella
A young horse walks alone across a plain lit an impossible blue, under a sky far denser with stars than anywhere on Earth actually allows. The anatomy is precise — this is a painter who has looked carefully at how these animals actually move — but the world the animal inhabits is entirely Devine's own construction. No horizon line that corresponds to a real Irish landscape, no light source that needs explaining. The result is an equestrian painting that has stopped being about horsemanship and become something more interesting: a painting about solitude, presence, and the quality of being the only thing in a frame.
Devine's equestrian work — a body that includes The Defender, Whistler's Horse, A New Horizon, and Chin Up alongside this new piece — sits within one of art history's most demanding subjects. The horse has occupied painters from Géricault to Stubbs to Velázquez for the same reasons: it is simultaneously a subject of extraordinary beauty and a carrier of meaning about power, freedom, and the relationship between human and animal. Devine brings to this tradition an Irish sensibility and a surrealist atmosphere that makes the familiar genuinely strange.
Original acrylic on canvas | 120 x 75 cm | 126 x 79 cm framed | Black frame
Other Available Works
Abundance and Capella join a collection at Creed Gallery that includes Midas, Whistler's Horse, The Defender, and surrealist works including Alight, Ambigutree, Sky Clover, and Falling Blossom. Neo-Dimensionist portraits — the body of work that has drawn the most attention from institutional collectors — include Empowerment and Chin Up.
Creed Gallery, Ascot, is currently the only UK gallery representing Vincent Devine, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London. To arrange a private viewing of Abundance or Capella, contact the gallery at art@creedgallery.com.