Vincent Devine | Gold

Vincent Devine — Gold

Vincent Devine is an Irish artist from Tullamore, County Offaly, whose practice moves between surrealist figure painting, equestrian works of unusual formal intelligence, and the Neo-Dimensionist series — a body of portraiture that engages directly with mental health, identity, and the interior life of its subjects with a candour and visual sophistication that distinguishes it from more conventional approaches to these subjects.

His visual language blends realism and surrealism — the precisely rendered detail of the realist tradition combined with the dreamlike logic and symbolic depth of surrealism, the two in productive tension throughout his work. Vivid colour, mythological reference, and personal narrative coexist on the same canvas.

Gold is among the most formally ambitious works in Devine's equestrian series — a painting in which the palette moves toward the metallic and luminous rather than natural description. The golden horse carries an echo of the Midas myth alongside a more immediate visual proposition: the animal as a creature of extraordinary beauty, rendered in a palette that amplifies that beauty.

Creed Gallery, Ascot, is currently the only UK gallery representing Vincent Devine, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Acrylic on canvas
Artwork: 19.5 x 19.5 in (50 x 50 cm)
White frame
Certificate of Authenticity

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