Kevin Devonport is an Award-winning artist currently located at Assembly House Studios in Leeds. It could be said that he has had a somewhat unorthodox introduction into the artworld as he originally learnt to paint whilst serving a prison sentence for drug offences.

Art has played a significant role in turning his life around. In 2019 he won a National Koestler Award for the painting category at London’s South Bank Centre. His work has been increasingly featured around the UK and various European Locations alongside several publications; with his story being covered extensively by the UK press.

Kevin has continuously donated a number of his works to charity that have raised significant sums at auction.

Kevin Devonport The Tarot Series

This overall series of still life paintings highlight the trajectory of ‘the self’ through the life course and is based on the artists own life narrative. The Trainers represent ‘the self’ and the movement through life, whilst the material artefacts convey particular identities that are encountered/adopted throughout this course. In each painting a Tarot card from the major arcana is displayed to depict a specific moment in life, one of the archetypes that everyone experiences albeit in our own subjective experience of
life.