Artist Statement
My artwork reflects a sense of awe and wonder for forms of nature, their shapes and intrinsic beauty. I forage for leaves, flora, seaweed, fungi, moss, broken shells, insect wings and seed pods for inspiration and incorporation in my art. My multi-disciplinary process combines drawing and painting on paper and fabric and layering with stitching, photography, collage, botanic eco-printing and printmaking. Gatherings from my nature walks are immortalized visually with the aim to inspire others to view nature through an expanded lens, evoking a reverence for the biodiversity of our environment and shoreline.
Bio
Bryant Galloway Whelan is an award-winning artist based in Fairhope, Alabama. She received her BFA from Auburn University and has participated in multiple solo exhibits and group shows. Whelan teaches classes and workshops in experimental printmaking techniques in venues across the Southeast and is represented by Sophiella Gallery in Mobile, Alabama. She has been awarded artist residencies with Nantucket Island School of Art and Design, Truro Center for the Arts in Cape Cod, and the Emerald Coast Cultural Arts Alliance in Seaside, Florida. Whelan is a member of the Fairhope Signature Artists exhibiting group and Mississippi Art Colony, the oldest continuous art colony in the nation.
Solo Exhibitions
2026 The Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center, Ocean Springs, MS
2024 Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2024 Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL
Group Exhibitions
2026 Shelby County Arts Council Juried Exhibition, Columbiana, AL
2026 Invitational Exhibition, “Grandmothers”, Central Arts Collective, Mobile, AL
2025 Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Juried Show, Mirimar Beach, FL
2025 Fairhope Signature Artists, Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL
2024 PaperWorker’s Local Invitational Fall Salon, Birmingham, AL
2023 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 75 Years of Mississippi Art Colony Juried Show
2022 Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL 2022
2021 Central Arts Collective “Flights of Fancy” Juried Show, Mobile, AL
2020 College Samual Gore Gallery, 2 Artist Show, Clinton, MS
2017 The Cedars Annual Juried Show, Jackson, MS, 2017
Multiple Years: Mississippi Art Colony Juried Show, Multiple venuews
Multiple Years: Eastern Shore Art Association Annual Juried Show, Fairhope, AL
Multiple Years: Mobile Arts Council Juried Member Show, Mobile, AL
Multiple Years: Ocean Springs Art Association Fall Show, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS
Awards
2025 2nd Place, Brewton Annual Invitation Art Show, Brewton, AL
2024 Alabama Audubon Bird of the Year Official Artist
2024 Members Choice Award, Mobile Arts Council Annual Member Exhibition
2019 First Place / Mixed Media, Ocean Springs Art Association
2019 Best of Show / Artistic Achievement, Mississippi Art Colony
2017 2nd Place Plein Air Competition, City of Gautier, MS
2017 People’s Choice Award, Singing River Art Association
2017 First Place / Mixed Media, Singing River Art Association
2016 First Place / Acrylic, Ocean Springs Art Association
Artist Residencies
2026 Escape to Create, Seaside Florida, Month of February
2025 Truro Center for the Arts, Cape Cod, MA, Month of April
2024 Nantucket Island School of Art & Design, Nantucket, MA
Teaching
2026 Nature as Muse, Experimental Printmaking, Eastern Shore Art Center
2025 Cyanotype, Riverhouse Workshop
2024 Experimental Relief Printmaking, Eastern Shore Art Center
2023 Botanic Ecoprinting Workshop, Eastern Shore Art Center
2021 Botanic Ecoprinting Workshop, Fairhope, Alabama
2014 Collage & Painting workshop, Artology Gallery, Mobile, AL
2014 Mixed Media workshop, Gulf Coast Art Assoc, MS
2014 Monoprint Collage Workshop, Pass Christian Art Assoc, MS
2014 Grumbacher Paints Official Instructor, acrylic painting
2003 Art Instructor, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Judging
Mobile Watercolor and Graphic Arts Society Exhibition, 2024, 2018
International Miniature Painting Society, 2018
First City Art Show, Pensacola, FL 2018
State of Mississippi Bicentennial Exhibition, 2017
Alabama Plein Air Artist Association, 2017
Art Study Club, Pensacola, 2017
Contact
bryant.g.whelan@gmail.com
251-270-9406
@BryantWhelan
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