“In Whelan’s vision of a holy city, the old order of distrust, violence, and tears has passed away. A new creation—hardly possible, nearly incredible, beyond our wildest dreams—beckons.”
Bernard G Prusak. Commonweal. Dec. 2016
"I think God has His hand on Brian... His art is so original and comes from within, which always makes people think.”
Art critic, Sister Wendy Beckett
“It’s as if a medieval stone mason had been given a box of paints.”
Brother Vaughan, Society of St. Francis
“Whelan’s art rescues the rich treasury of Catholic iconography from the fog of syncretist, solipsistic thinking.”
Martin Boland, Dean of Brentwood Cathedral
