Press
Below please find the most recent or notable coverage of Brian’s work.
Videos
- Brian Whelan’s: The Holy City
- A Visit with Irish artist Brian Whelan (NOAH: A Future Hope)
- Brian Whelan, “Praying the Game: How I Found My Place as an Artist in a Secular Age
- 8th Catholic Arts Biennial at SVC, Verostko Center for the Arts
- Brian Supports The Waterford Foundation
- Clifford John Ryan reviewing A Tragic Carmody
- Writing Competition Green Curtain Theatre
- Mr. and Mrs. Andrews – A Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Gainsborough
- The Life of Nurse Edith Cavell
Publications
- An Age-Old Warning: Three Artists Look to the Biblical Flood Amid the Climate Crisis
- Life in an art gallery – Wilton Bulletin, September 11, 2025
- NOAH: A Future Hope – The Culturium
- White Robe: An exhibition celebrating the life of Rev. Dr John Roberts among Native Americans
- Wilton artist exhibits interfaith ‘Holy City’ paintings in Hartford: ‘Aspirational vision’
- Wilton Artist Brian Whelan Exhibits Holy City paintings at Hartford International University
- White Robe – Episcopal Church in Wyoming’s brochure on Brian’s commissioned series of paintings
- Brian’s painting – Finding the Way – The Visual Commentary on Scripture
- New Art Exhibition features the Sacred Journey of the Rev. John Roberts among Native Americans
- Brian Whelan – CARAVAN Artist Spotlight
- Brian Whelan – The Joy of Religious Art
- Brian Whelan: The Exchange of Conversation and Creativity
- Lives of Brian
- St. Martin Dividing His Cloak
- Brentwood Cross Arrives at the Cathedral
- ‘Voices: Immigration’ exhibit opens at Pauly Friedman Gallery
- This is Divine Comedy in its Truest Sense – John Kohan
- Irish Post – Coming out of Ireland helped me see more clearly what Ireland truly is – Joe Horgan
- Irish Times – Remembering the heroic Irish nurses of the London Blitz – Martin McNamara
- Ealing Times – Artist to Playwright
- Kentish Towner – Must Do: Watch A Tragic Carmody – Stephen Emms
- Loudoun Now – Whelan’s ‘Holy City’ Soars at Washington National Cathedral – Margaret Morton, Loudoun Now, Dec 2016
- Waterford artist’s work is on display at Washington National Cathedral – Jim Barnes, Washington Post, Oct 2016
- Cathedral to display Holy City by renowned painter Brian Whelan – Washington National Cathedral
- Washington National Cathedral hosts tribute to executed WWI nurse Edith Cavell – Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post, Aug 2014
- Eastern Daily Press – Photo Gallery: Edith Cavell’s life story told through a series of paintings in the US – Kim Briscoe, July 2014
- ArtWay – The Proximity of the Sacred and Profane – Meryl Doney, ArtWay.eu, 2013
- Adam Wyeth Reviews a Collaborative Publication by Joseph Horgan & Brian Whelan – Adam Wyeth, Southword. 2012
- A Meeting of Minds…A Conversation between Artist & Patron – By Sabina Clarke, Irish Edition, Feb 2012
- Praying the Game: How I Found my Place as an Artist in a Secular AgeBrian Whelan
- In The Footsteps Of A Martyr – The Tablet – Brian Whelan
- La Libre – Review of Edith Cavell Exhibition in Brussels Cathedral – Christian Laporte, July 2015
- Art Show is a Hit of Flying Colours – S. Marsden, Irish World, 2011
- Art on the threshold – A. Saltmarsh, Eastern Daily Press, 2011
- Brian Whelan rocks with the Irish…and The Popes – R. Ormerod, Green Pebble Art Magazine, 2009
The best way I could describe Brian would be to call him the rock & roll painter
—Paul McGuinness of the Popes