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Michael Whelan<p>CHAINS OF THE SEA (2018)<br>Acrylic on Canvas - 12" x 16"</p><p>A small study for a larger planned painting that never happened. I began working on this at the same time as the cover for Words of Radiance back in 2013. 1/3</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/leftoversandpalettegremlins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftoversandpalettegremlins</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>PASSAGE: THE RAINBOW (1991)<br>Acrylic on Canvas - 36" X 48" </p><p>The surface meaning of my Passage paintings is technical—it signifies a passage from working nearly exclusively in acrylics to attaining a greater technical flexibility in oils. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/passage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passage</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>GRAVITY (2002)<br>Acrylic on Canvas - 35" x 43"</p><p>Once when I was being sedated for surgery and I was counting backwards, “99, 98, ...” I felt this surge of irresistible calm sweep over me like a vast tide of night. While I floated away, I felt myself become totally, completely relaxed. 1/3</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>PATH (2016)<br>Acrylic on Panel - 12" x 16" </p><p>This painting featuring my granddaughter Seren was done for the inaugural Leftovers and Palette Gremlins gallery. Every week I set out to complete a small piece inspired by paint marks or other found patterns. 1/3</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/leftoversandpalettegremlins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftoversandpalettegremlins</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>RIMRUNNER (2011)<br>Oil - 18” x 28”</p><p>A painting in The End of Nature subset of my personal work, which represents humanity as somewhat oblivious to the support that nature provides for them. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/endofnature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endofnature</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>ISLAND (2007)<br>Acrylic on Panel - 30" x 40"</p><p>Only by cutting our ties to our “island” can we discover what lies beyond. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/island/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">michaelwhelan.com/galleries/is</span><span class="invisible">land/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>PRUDENCE (1996)<br>Acrylic on Panel - 12" x 11" </p><p>The classical notion of Prudence is an important theme to me, as it was to the ancient Greeks. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/virtues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtues</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>SUNFLOWER (2010)<br>Acrylic on Panel - 12" x 18" </p><p>It's her sanctuary...an echo of something I experienced when I was younger.</p><p>Anyone familiar with my work will know how much I’m drawn to concrete. Images like this pop into my head at unexpected times. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>THE END OF NATURE (1998)<br>Acrylic on Gessoboard - 28" x 22"</p><p>The first in what became a series of paintings about our relationship with nature. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/endofnature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endofnature</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>THE REACH (1999)<br>Acrylic on Canvas - 48" x 30"</p><p>Almost a Lumen painting, in which figures are trying to work their way out of enclosed spaces and get into the light. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>UNWINDING (2021) <br>Acrylic on Gessobord - 10" x 11 ½” </p><p>The paintings in The End of Nature series are concerned with our relationship to the environment and how we need to care for it. Here, the young boy takes a moment to just enjoy it. 1/3</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/endofnature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endofnature</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>THE DIVINING HEART (2005)<br>Acrylic on Canvas - 36" x 24"</p><p>"Stepping stones" of ammonite fossils represent the lessons of history and are the only havens of safety for the figure in the foreground. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ammonite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ammonite</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>GLIMPSE (1992)<br>Acrylic on Canvas - 48" x 36" </p><p>I think this is the first time I used the red glass heart as a symbol for the immediate and/or material possessions. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>EDGEDANCER (2002)<br>Acrylic on Gessoboard - 28" x 22"</p><p>A cautionary, “All good things come to an end...” </p><p>While she dances away her day, the ground which supports her erodes into nothingness. </p><p><a href="https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/edgedancer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ed</span><span class="invisible">gedancer/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/theendofnature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theendofnature</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>THE CROSSING (1997)<br>Oil on Canvas - 30" X 60"</p><p>The uncertainty of and inescapable attraction to the concept of life after death.</p><p>All of my Passage works use the dream-object of the lighted bubbles—symbols of spirit or unfettered consciousness—to convey the idea of movement from one state of mind to another, a transition to a more open and lighted place; a release.</p><p><a href="https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/crossing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">michaelwhelan.com/galleries/cr</span><span class="invisible">ossing/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/passage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passage</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>THE LEAVETAKING (1992)<br>Oil on Canvas - 18" x 48" </p><p>I planned for this to be a large "preliminary" for a new work in his Passage series that I would paint in oils. 1/3</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/passage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passage</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>FLOWERS AND WEEDS (1997)<br>Acrylic on Canvas - 36" X 48"</p><p>When my son Adrian was 3 or 4 years old, we used to go to an abandoned construction site where there were huge slabs of concrete embedded with iron reinforcing rods. 1/4</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>CAUSEWAY (1992)<br>Oil on Canvas - 48" X 36"</p><p>The colors came from a foggy morning walk at a reservoir near my home. </p><p><a href="https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/causeway/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ca</span><span class="invisible">useway/</span></a><br>1/4</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fadedstar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fadedstar</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>ASYLUM (2001)<br>Acrylic On Panel - 22" x 28"</p><p>Another double entendre title—for "asylum" can infer both confinement and security. But is she really attaining both?</p><p><a href="https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/asylum/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">michaelwhelan.com/galleries/as</span><span class="invisible">ylum/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fineart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fineart</span></a></p>
Michael Whelan<p>THE MAD POET (1982)<br>Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 12 ½" x 17 ½"</p><p>Since its inclusion in the back matter of THE ART OF MICHAEL WHELAN, this small painting has elicited a strong response from fans. 1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/personalvisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personalvisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/imaginativerealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imaginativerealism</span></a></p>
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