The Stone Art Chronicles

featuring the ongoing adventures of Devin Devine

No plastic in the landscape

Devin Devine, human being who does stuff outside Canvas tarps, for landscaping and contracting purposes For landscapers and contractors, sure. How many tarps does the average contractor go through a year? How many little blue threads of tarp plastic do I find, pretty...

Stone Dots

Devin Devine, artisan and artist based out of Pennsylvania devin@devineescapes.comĀ  projects completed across the USA Above, Dry Stone Sphere The Thirdlymost, 2015. This might be my earliest example, of stone dots like this. This recent outdoor shower mosaic is at the...

Solar Eye Mosaic

Solar Eye Mosaic

Devin Devine, stone mosaic artist devin@devineescapes.com I'm working on a stone circle. This is dry set stone art, with no mortar. The stones go down deeper than you think, and are fit tight, so that stones can't just be pulled lose. Calling it the Eye Of Fire,...

Studio update | eyes on trees

Devin Devine, land artist, bench maker Eyes On Trees Often, when I look at trees I'll see eye-like patterns among the bark. Here, I've taken reclaimed pieces of oak and carved them into eyes, using a wood burner to draw the iris and pupil. Related content: the solar...

Splitting boulders using cut-nails

Hello everybody, welcome to the Devine Escapes Stone Arts Academy. My name is Devin Devine, and today I wanted to talk to you about a little known method for splitting stones. This is a technique I've been developing over the past few years, using small masonry...

doing stone work in the winter

  building a heat tent How to do stone work in the winter time. One common method is to set up scaffolding as the frame for your heat tent, and then drape a large sheet of plastic over it. This method works well and is pretty fast to set up and furthermore it is...