George Devlin
George Devlin studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1955 to 1960. At the G.S.A. he was awarded The Robert Hart Post Diploma Bursary and The Haldane Scholarship. He also won The Chalmers Prize, The Carnegie Travelling Scholarship and The Maclaine Watters Medal (RSA). On leaving art school Devlin studied and painted in Greece and Italy and later crossed the Sahara Desert where he established himself in West Africa.
Upon his return the UK he was invited to teach in the painting school at The Glasgow School of Art (1962 – 1968) He was elected a member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (R.S.W.) in 1964 aged only 27. He was awarded a major Arts Council Award in 1968 and established his own painting school in 1969, first sited in Scotland, but later relocated to France. In 1972 Devlin presented a series of Art for Scottish Television and the following year designed the set and costumes for the ballet “Embers”, performed by The Scottish Ballet.
In 1972 he was elected Chairman of the Glasgow League of Artists; in 1989 a Member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; in 1991 Artist in Residence, Dinan; elected President of The Glagsow Art Club in 1997 and elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of the Arts in 1999. In December 2003 Devlin was elected AROI ( Associate of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters).
His paintings hang in numerous private collections throughout the world. He is a distinguished portrait painter and was commissioned in 2000 by The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, to paint Nobel Prize Winner Professor Sir James Black. He has been commissioned by Cunard to paint works for their new liner QM2.
In recent years Devlin has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, France, Italy, South Africa as well as Ireland and Scotland. He is married to Marie and has a daughter, Nuala.
