This beautifully printed full-color volume showcases 114 of the oil, egg tempera and watercolor paintings of noted American realist John Whalley. In his artwork, Whalley imbues his still-life subjects with an ethereal inner luminosity that transcends simple realism, presenting an object as common as an old tool with with such emotion that we encounter the traces of the hands which once held and used it. The viewer is led into a realm where the ordinary whispers its own extraordinary story.
Whalley was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the Rhode Island School of Design where he received his BFA in Painting and Illustration in 1976. Over the last 50 years, his work has been exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad. Some of his solo exhibitions have been at the Georgia Museum of Art, The Coral Springs Museum of Art in Florida, The Lord Hall Gallery - University of Maine, The Kemper Museum of Art. His work is also in the collections of The Portland Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas, and the Puratos Sourdough Museum in Belgium.
Whalley makes his home in midcoast Maine