Kristin Devine
CREATIVE PRACTICE
Drawing and painting.
Works predominately in soft pastels on paper, and on occasion, watercolours and oils.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am inspired first and foremost by the natural world and have a great love of all things flora and fauna. Exploring and recreating specimens visually, I believe, opens up a new level of understanding and appreciation for form and function in the natural environment and creates a strong foundation from which new ideas can develop. In this way, I enjoy producing work which blurs the boundaries between apparently disparate objects and concepts, examines familiar objects from unexpected angles, and allows for the creation of new worlds, objects and anatomically plausible, if fantastical, creatures.
I work in a range of areas including natural history illustration, children’s illustration and commissions, and in a variety of mediums including digital, however, my preferred medium is graphite. Increasingly, I am exploring the many possibilities of combining digital and traditional mediums.
BIO
Kristin Devine is an emerging artist and illustrator who lives in Armidale NSW, where she enjoys the region’s many spectacular national parks and unique ecosystems as sources of inspiration and subject matter for her work. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Graduate Diploma in Local, Family and Applied History from the University of New England and has a particular interest in the use of images as historical sources. Kristin is the illustrator of Jenny Blackford’s junior novel Fil and Harry (Christmas Press 2021), and winner of the 2019 NEWC Illustration Prize.
Education and training:
Bachelor of Arts, UNE, 2018
Graduate Diploma in Local, Family and Applied History, UNE 2019
Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration, University of Newcastle 2020
CONTACT
0434 611 269
kadevineillustration@gmail.com