Biography

Isabelle Devos is a contemporary painter whose work conveys a subtly powerful sense of place and atmosphere. Through her paintings, she delves into the hidden narratives that emerge from the spaces where people and the landscape intersect.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Painting and Photography from Mount Allison University in Canada, she spent several years working as an artist on the east coast of Canada while raising her young family.

In 2004 Devos relocated with her family to regional Australia where she immediately fell in love with the local landscapes, with their combination of rural properties among national parks wilderness with spectacular waterfalls and gorges. Devos exhibits her work regularly in urban and regional galleries and is represented by galleries in Sydney and Brisbane as well as in Canada.

Devos’s work has been shortlisted for several major Australian art prizes such as the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award in 2024, the Glover Prize in 2024, the Lethbridge Landscape Prize in 2023 and the Paddington Art Prize in 2022.

Her work is part of the collection at the New South Wales State Library and New England Regional Art Museum in Australia as well as in the New Brunswick Art Bank collection in Canada.

Isabelle Devos is represented in Sydney with Frances Keevil, in Queensland with Lethbridge Gallery and in Canada with Fog Forest Gallery.