Brian Whelan

''Clear, strong, prayerful work, with joy at its centre.''
Art critic Sister Wendy Beckett

“…a visionary painter…”
Meryl Doney, Curator for Wallspace All Hallows on the Wall

“Whelan’s art rescues the rich treasury of Catholic iconography from the fog of syncretist, solipsistic thinking.”
Martin Boland, Dean of Brentwood Cathedral

“He goes to dark, grim places, places that in the modern world we like to pretend don’t exist and when he gets there he cracks jokes. This work is the work of the medieval jester.”
Joe Horgan, Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award winner

“his work is bold and commanding.”
Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize for literature

“Looking at a Whelan painting is like looking at a stained glass window, through the eyes of Bart Simpson.”
Writer and critic Steven Martin

“Brian Whelan’s bold, large scale paintings have immense physical presence. They’re loaded with imagery and design, densely configured into a rich pattern of considerable complexity.”
Victoria Donohoe, art critic, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Brian Whelan gives us post modern’s permission to seek again the Holy City and to realize that it is nothing like that which we have seen, nor is it the undiscovered country of Hamlet’s dread.”
Jeff Frohner, Pastor, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and School

“The best way I could describe Brian would be to call him the rock & roll painter.”
Paul McGuinness of the Popes

Next Exhibition:

On behalf of St Martin in-the-Fields Church, you are invited to an art exhibition of Brian’s work:

St Martin Divides His Cloak

St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square, London

Tuesday 8 November – Sunday 20 November 2011
10:00 – 17:00

For U.K. and International sales of paintings and books, for general information and to contact Brian Whelan, email Roseberry Crest at wendy.roseberry@btinternet.com