Vincent Devine | The Ambigutree Series
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the diverse range of styles carried in Vincent Devine’s “Ambigutree Series” and a potential for client personalisation.
The Facet's
In this series we observe the use of a person’s profile to hide the shape in the foliage of the trees. These faces can be made more obscure to move away from a likeness so a male and female tree may be represented eg: without a likeness of appearance.
Below Vincent has personalised the Facet series to represent his three children. This is to demonstrate how personalised these works can be made and can be tailored and commissioned to depict you or your own family or even a favourite celebrity.
Colours can be chosen by the client.
ANNALIE
Acrylic on Canvas | 20x20inches | €950
Annalie's face profile with 9 trees to represent each birth year.
ROWAN
Acrylic on Canvas | 20x20inches | €950
Rowan's face profile with 4 trees to represent each birth year.
THEA
Acrylic on Canvas | 20x20inches | €950
Thea's face profile with 8 trees to represent each birth month.
THE OAK WISE | Acrylic on Deep Edge Canvas | 100x100cm | €3500
This piece was inspired by a trip to a client’s house for a consultation. At the entrance to the house stood a huge Oak tree, old and strong. Using a reference of an old man’s profile is Vincent’s symbolic way of communicating wisdom and strength of the human spirit and the enduring Oak tree.
A tree on your property in some cases can provide the vessel to carry your personal facet.
Family Portrait (Abstract)
This style uses the King and Queen chess piece shapes to represent both male and females trees.
The painting below is a commemorative piece commissioned for a client after the loss of his wife. His house overlooks the sea setting the scene for the painting. On the left horizon are the mountains visible from his bedroom, to the right, the trees that line the promenade he used to walk with his wife and two young children.
He is represented as the King tree and his two girls are the two trees beside him. Finally his wife is personified as the golden petals gently falling from above.
DYNASTIC DUSK
Acrylic on Canvas | 20x20inches | €900
Other tree may be added in at a later date to represent an expanding family or even a family pet.
T,H,C,C,C
Acrylic on Canvas | 20x20inches | €900
Some clients opt to not use the chess pieces and prefer a general tree. Here however the first letter initial of each member of the family is hidden in
the foliage. Can you spot the letters T,H,C,C,C?
Music Notes
This style arrived when Vincent was painting treble and bass clef trees vertically. Combining the clefs horizontally as foliage and the five trees functioning as the music bars, a new idea was born.
Vincent, having had brief and unsuccessful lessons in piano, learned to play Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” and that is the inspiration for this painting. Blossoms fall from the sky and land where the music notes would be on the sheet music for this melody.
This style can be commissioned to include a song personal to the client; a lullaby, a first dance wedding song; the possibilities are endless.
MOONLIGHT SONATA | Acrylic on Deep Edge Canvas | 100X150cm | €5000
ED | Acrylic on Canvas | 80x80cm | €2500
This painting was painted and showcased at an exhibition with no blossoms falling.
The couple who purchased it chose to depict their first dance wedding song;
“Sky Full Of Stars” by Coldplay.
Animals & Pets
Some people find symbolic significance in certain animals and using the trees Vincent can represent them in a dynamic composition
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Client commissions include using a reference of a horse they own, family/ household pets or indeed any animal that will translate to Vincent’s visual.
FLUTTER BY | Acrylic on Canvas Panel | 12x12inches | €450
FORESTS
The forest series are simply those, just forests. However, as a way of including a client in a painting these can be commissioned to contain a certain number of trees. Most clients like to commission these to celebrate an anniversary or birthday.
A client’s daughter commissioned a forest with 70 trees to celebrate her mother’s birthday, one tree for each year of her life. Each passing year Vincent will revisit the piece and paint another tree into the painting to celebrate another year.
THE INBETWEEN | Acrylic on Canvas | 100x150cm | €4500
ALIGHT | Acrylic on Canvas | 80x80cm | €2500
CRESTS
The most recent in the series style. Here Vincent reimagines the Coat of Arms/ Crest of his home county in Ireland, Co. Offaly. Taking the county colours as seen in the crest and the rampant lion we see a painting that marks Vincent’s home and the place he is currently raising his family.
Some clients have commissioned work which takes symbols from each of their own home county crests and combine them in one painting. Some also elect to place something from the landscape on the horizon to suggest a sense of place in the painting.
UIBH FHAILI
Acrylic on Canvas | 80x80cm |
€2750 (SOLD)
PRINTS AVAILABLE AUTUMN WINTER 2020
Customisation available (please enquire)
BAILE ATHA CLIATH
Acrylic on Canvas | 80x80cm |
€4500 raised for Charity
PRINTS AVAILABLE AUTUMN WINTER 2020
Customisation available (please enquire)
“Baile Atha Cliath” is a piece painted specially for The Lord Mayor’s Charity Ball. This is an original painting using the Dublin county crest as inspiration.
Using the county colours of blue and the hugely identifiable three castle symbols, Vincent has painted a version of the crest using his Ambigutree Series.
This painting is part of a series Vincent will be rolling out over the next year where he will take each of the 32 counties of Ireland and use each county crest to create a unique painting. He will also be producing prints of these while only having one original of each county and also accepting commissions combining county imagery based on a clients family history and lineage.