Read what Art Critic Sister Wendy Beckett, Martin Boland, Dean of Brentwood Cathedral and The Pope’s singer/songwriter Paul McGuinness say about Brian's work

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Reviews

I enjoyed the book Brian - keep the brush in your hand.
Seamus Heaney

‘Concrete Bob’ MacAlpine’s alleged last words were: “Keep the Big Mixer going, and keep Paddy behind it”.

The paintings and commentaries in Brian Whelan’s ‘Myth of Return’ tell us, in no uncertain terms, that Paddy has left the Mixer a long way behind.

To borrow a word from another great ethnic emigrant minority, “Respect”!!!
Ultan Cowley

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Myth of Return - £12 including post & packing

Thirty two pages of 33 illustrations of Brian's work in full colour and the following commentaries:

Commentaries

Finding the Faith?

Tom McMillan confronts some demons of his own. Whelan’s work leads him into an introspective spiral.

How far does a man have to go before he surrenders his unbelief?

The Viaduct

Closer to civilization and its discontents, Stephen Martin’s ‘The Viaduct’ stands as a monument to the generations of Irish labourers and navvies that built, and suffered by building, Britain’s roads, railways and canals.

Time Gentlemen Please

Whelan’s work brings us closer to drink as well as God. For Joe Horgan ‘Time Gentlemen Please’ reminds us of ultimate matters, for “drink, like death, is a certainty”.

Shaman Shane – The Wounded Healer

Stephen Martin revisits the controversial figure of musician Shane McGowan, branding him as a latter-day London-Irish spirit-raiser and exorcist.

Asrael and Night Train

Over a metaphorical glass of beer, Joe Horgan contemplates the bleaker aspects of Irish immigrant life in ‘Asrael and Night Train’. “Jesus, I’ve been here before!”

The Myth of Return

Tim Holt-Wilson interviews Brian Whelan and discovers a London-Irish drama of attachment and separation at work in his paintings.

Slipping letters Beneath the Sea

Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea

Check out the book 'Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea' whose cover is illustrated by Brian

'...these poems are truly international in that they delineate the loss of homeland and subsequent hunger for connection that is at the heart of the human experience in the latter end of the twentieth century and on into the new milleninium.' Paula Meehan

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