Richard Devlin
Author | Walnut Creek, California, USA
Richard Devlin is a writer and painter who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. A published art critic and professor or art, he has sailed around the world teaching art on the Semester at Sea, visiting the Buddhist temples in Nara and Kyoto, The Ajanta and Ellora rock-cut temples in India, the Pyramids and Archaeological Museum.... more
Richard Devlin is a writer and painter who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. A published art critic and professor or art, he has sailed around the world teaching art on the Semester at Sea, visiting the Buddhist temples in Nara and Kyoto, The Ajanta and Ellora rock-cut temples in India, the Pyramids and Archaeological Museum in Cairo, Aya Sophia and the great mosques of Istanbul, and the Alcazar and the Alhambra in Spain. Devlin has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in Mesoamerican art and studied in central and eastern Mexico and the Yucatan. As an artist, he has had numerous prizes in juried museum shows as well as fifteen solo exhibitions of his paintings in Pennsylvania and California, most recently at The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries and Stanford University’s Art Spaces. On a journey to Sicily in 2001, he was fascinated to discover a whole new medieval style of art and architecture, a mixture of Arab, Norman, and Byzantine Greek influences. Ultimately, the trip to Sicily inspired The Cult, the first novel of The Abraxas Chronicles.