Beware the Basilisk (and a Bunch of Other Things Too)

Gallery 40 is featuring local artist KP Devlin and his incredible fantasy for the month of October.

Ever since a young boy, KP Devlin  has experienced vivid, outlandish dreams. Recurring themes and characters from these dreams have evolved into his own personal mythology. Landscapes and creatures he would visit and interact with on a nightly basis eventually found their way into his waking hours via the pencils and paper.

Supplementing the influence of his dreams (and likely influencing the dreams as well) were the books his mother gave him to read. Illustrated stories and poetry by Maurice Sendak, Richard Scarry, Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry were favorites, and injected humor and whimsy into the stories and scenarios he would create. My father, a man of science, taught him about astronomy and paleontology. This instilled Kp Devlin with a deep sense of wonder about the history of our…