Fintan Whelan

Fintan Whelan

Gestural abstraction exploring sensory experience, with dynamic color, textured surfaces, and alchemical materiality, activating emotional resonance.

SERIES

In his pictorial practice, Fintan Whelan investigates painting as a constantly transforming field, where color, light, and matter operate as active forces in continuous displacement. His work explores the fluidity of perception and the impossibility of fixing visual experience in a closed form, constructing open compositions that convey a sense of movement, suspension, and change. Through a gestural and almost alchemical process, based on the superposition of pigments, oils, varnishes, and various materials, each painting is configured as a record of gesture, time, and the interaction between surface and light.

13 works in the series

Works by Fintan Whelan in the catalogue: Abundance · Another world · Echoes in the Light · Eternal Summer · Labyrinth of reflection · Land layers · Layered Nature · Layers of perception · Limits of longing · Magnetic Echoes · Natural Voices II · Strata of memory · Water Dance I - Art Biennale Venice 2022