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Suspended Resonance (2026) Original Oil Painting by Fintan Whelan
200 x 100 x 4cm (unframed)
£5,452.08
Original artwork description
In Suspended Resonance, Fintan Whelan presents a nuanced meditation on the fluid nature of consciousness, articulating it as both a visual and material phenomenon. The expansive horizontal composition functions as a liminal space, bridging the tangible gravity of geological processes with the intangible currents of human emotion, and dissolving boundaries between the external world and inner experience.
Whelan’s distinctive “alchemical” technique—an intricate layering of oils, pigments, and raw silk powder—yields a surface that feels simultaneously ancient and immediate. Pigments diffuse and settle into one another in soft, shifting veils, while the silk powder imparts a restrained luminosity, allowing light to permeate the composition rather than merely rest upon it. The resulting depth is not conventionally spatial but atmospheric, as though the painting exists in a state of ongoing transformation.
While the organic swirls and biomorphic forms evoke spontaneity, the work ultimately reveals a process of careful orchestration. Whelan balances chance and control with precision, permitting materials a degree of autonomy while subtly directing their accumulation through successive layers. This dynamic interplay between intention and accident echoes the instability of memory and perception, reinforcing the painting’s conceptual core.
In eschewing traditional representation, Suspended Resonance invites a mode of viewing that is both active and deeply subjective. Rather than offering a fixed image, it unfolds as a field of shifting associations in which viewers may locate their own resonances of experience. Observation becomes a reflective, fluid act—one in which perception itself appears mutable, mirroring the transient and elusive nature of consciousness that the work so compellingly evokes.
Materials used:
pigment, oil, raw silk and polymer
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 200 x 100 x 4cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Tags:
#oil painting#abstract#landscape#painting#extra large#minimalism#statement piece#silk#statement art#still#motion#sienna#motion and#fintan whelan
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Original artwork description
In Suspended Resonance, Fintan Whelan presents a nuanced meditation on the fluid nature of consciousness, articulating it as both a visual and material phenomenon. The expansive horizontal composition functions as a liminal space, bridging the tangible gravity of geological processes with the intangible currents of human emotion, and dissolving boundaries between the external world and inner experience.
Whelan’s distinctive “alchemical” technique—an intricate layering of oils, pigments, and raw silk powder—yields a surface that feels simultaneously ancient and immediate. Pigments diffuse and settle into one another in soft, shifting veils, while the silk powder imparts a restrained luminosity, allowing light to permeate the composition rather than merely rest upon it. The resulting depth is not conventionally spatial but atmospheric, as though the painting exists in a state of ongoing transformation.
While the organic swirls and biomorphic forms evoke spontaneity, the work ultimately reveals a process of careful orchestration. Whelan balances chance and control with precision, permitting materials a degree of autonomy while subtly directing their accumulation through successive layers. This dynamic interplay between intention and accident echoes the instability of memory and perception, reinforcing the painting’s conceptual core.
In eschewing traditional representation, Suspended Resonance invites a mode of viewing that is both active and deeply subjective. Rather than offering a fixed image, it unfolds as a field of shifting associations in which viewers may locate their own resonances of experience. Observation becomes a reflective, fluid act—one in which perception itself appears mutable, mirroring the transient and elusive nature of consciousness that the work so compellingly evokes.
Materials used:
pigment, oil, raw silk and polymer
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 200 x 100 x 4cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Tags:
#oil painting#abstract#landscape#painting#extra large#minimalism#statement piece#silk#statement art#still#motion#sienna#motion and#fintan whelan
Fintan Whelan
Germany
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Fintan employs a distinctive method of painting, an alchemical blend of pigments, oils, and various media. This approach, marked by spontaneity and rawness, captures the essence of his creative philosophy.... Read more