by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2006
Since my most recent resolution to devote all my time to my gallery work I’ve been obsessed with painting these passageways. It doesn’t take a Sigmund Freud to figure out why. The career transition I seek to make is a prospect both compelling yet... 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2006
Another search for the light. Creating the illusion of texture in paint, the process of actually painting it, can be an act of meditation. If it were not so, the painting of all those rocks would be torture, especially for someone like me with an impatient... 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2006
The first of my Stone Portals paintings, which can be considered a subset of my Passage works. They visualize what it takes to overcome or bypass obstacles in the search for truth and ultimate knowledge, via intuitive experience. 