Devin Devine

Johnsen, Jan (April 27, 2026). "The Spirit of Stone". Sculpture Magazine. p. 22.

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Devin Devine (born 1977) is an American artist and stone mason living in North East Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains.

Known for his dry-stone installations and educational work promoting traditional masonry techniques, Devine’s projects range from residential garden features. to large-scale landscape installations, and are distinguished by their emphasis on natural materials, craftsmanship, and original design.

Devine has works on permanent public display at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton Maryland, in downtown Hamilton Ohio, and the Matilda Pfieffer Museum in Piggott Arkansas.

Early Life

As a child, Devine would play in the forests and creeks, often collecting interesting rocks and treasures. At 19, he took a job as a stone mason’s labourer and would bring along a small notebook to privately work on story ideas and illustrations. These notebooks soon became filled with ideas for functional artworks, which would ultimately shape his career.

Early Work

Devine chose dry stone walling as his discipline in 2007, deeming it the most challenging and impressive kind of stone masonry.

Devine chose dry stone walling as his discipline in 2007, deeming it the most challenging and impressive kind of stone masonry. He launched Devine Escapes – a business venture offering dry stone walling and dry set flagstone patios as well as benches, bird baths, memorials, and sculptures.

In 2010, he began working on the flowing stone style of dry-stone masonry, later called Lithadelic. This creative style involves making dry stone walls, patios and sculptures where each stone is part of the artistic flow but also serves as a structural member.

Devine later established himself professionally as a designer and builder specializing in natural-stone hardscaping, working primarily in residential and small-scale public settings.

Teaching and Educational Work

Devine is an active educator, offering workshops, on-site training sessions, and instructional content for homeowners, hobbyists, and emerging stonemasons. His teaching emphasizes the fundamentals of dry-stone principles, especially with regards to dry set flagstone installations.

Since March, 2022, Devin has also taken part in Land Art Festivals such as the Llano Earth Art Festival (LEAF)

Style and Influence

Devine’s style is described as a hybrid of functional craft and sculptural sensibility. While grounded in traditional building techniques, his work features contemporary design elements, such as flowing curves, asymmetrical compositions, and artistic focal points integrated into otherwise pragmatic structures.

His projects and tutorials have circulated widely online, influencing both professional builders and do-it-yourself enthusiasts through a multitude of forums.

Notable Public Installations and Artwork

Devine is a multi-faceted stone artist, with an extensive background building walkways, patios, memorials, bird baths, benches, rock cairns, cairn houses and dry-stone sculptures.

One of Devine’s most recognized public works is Dry-Stone Sphere the Fourth, a large dry-stacked stone sphere installed in the Fragrance Garden at Brookside Gardens in Silver Spring, Maryland. The piece is frequently cited as a signature achievement, and required soil-stability engineering to ensure safe installation and visitor enjoyment.

In Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Devine created the Walnutport Sphere, also known as Stacked Stone Sphere the Sixth. Built near the Blue Mountain Ski Resort, the sculpture is positioned so that it is visible from the road, effectively functioning as a public-facing landmark for the area.

Devine’s whimsical and surreal “Squiggly Noodle, Eyeball-Tentacle Entity”, installed at Stonehedge Gardens in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, highlights the playful dimension of his practice. The work combines mystical, almost cosmic imagery with the discipline of traditional stone craftsmanship, a blend that has become characteristic of Devine’s style.

At the Matilda Pfeiffer Museum in Piggott, Arkansas, Devine installed a large dry-stacked stone vase sculpture, a piece that merges sculptural aesthetics with functional masonry.

In Hedgesville, West Virginia, Devine constructed a spiral herb garden, integrating winding stone paths with organic geometric patterns. The project combines landscape design with functional gardening spaces, demonstrating how Devine’s stone-craft sensibilities can shape both artistic and practical environments.

Devine’s Lithadelic Water Drop, an eight-foot-tall dry-stone sculpture commissioned by nonprofit organization the City of Sculpture in Hamilton, Ohio, exhibits his inclination toward ambitious, large-scale works. The sculpture rises into a droplet-like form, with a flared base that displays his precise handling of balance, gravity, and structural stone-stacking.

In Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, Devine has led a series of cairn-building workshops and earth-art collaborations, producing participatory installations that engage both community members and the surrounding landscape.

Devine's creations were celebrated in print in 2023, in The Llano News, and his Winter Installations credited in WFMZ News. Renowned landscape designer Jan Johnsen also wrote extensively about Devine's sculptures in The Spirit of Stone, for Sculpture Magazine.

See Also

• Land art
• Dry stone
• Rock cairns

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