Artists

George Devlin, born in Glasgow, was a distinguished Scottish painter. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1955 to 1960, where he won several prestigious awards, including the Haldane Scholarship, Chalmers Prize, and the Carnegie Travelling Scholarship from the Royal Scottish Academy. This enabled him to travel and study extensively across Europe. His artistic journey later took him across the Sahara to West Africa, where he lived and worked for a brief period.

On his return to Scotland, Devlin began teaching composition at the Glasgow School of Art in 1962. He was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 1964 and received a major Arts Council award in 1968. The following year he established his own painting school, which he later relocated to France.

Devlin’s work includes still lifes but he is best known for his landscapes, capturing scenes from Scotland, Italy, France, India and South Africa. His bright, fresh, and spontaneous en plein air approach produced evocative and atmospheric impressions of the places he painted. His work was exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, earning him a lasting reputation in the world of contemporary landscape painting.