Vincent Devine | Midas

Vincent Devine — Midas

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.

Midas takes one of the most resonant myths in Western culture — the king whose wish that everything he touched would turn to gold became his curse — as the subject for a work of contemporary painting. Devine's engagement with mythology finds in ancient stories a direct language for contemporary psychological states.

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

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