whalen_biography

Artist, Shawn Whalen, was born in 1964 and currently resides in the village of Keene, where he is raising his son Denvers. Shawn began his career at a very early age with great encouragement from his family.

He works in various media, including, acrylic, oil, and watercolour. The subjects he portrays in his art have evolved over his career. His current focus of work is a combination of rural Ontario landscapes, wildlife, and heritage architecture, although, he likes to consider the entire “outdoors” as inspiration for future works. As well as painting, he teaches drawing and painting classes and publishes his own prints.

Shawn was commissioned in 1993, by the Township of Otonabee to complete a series of nine originals of local heritage buildings. These images were also reproduced in limited edition prints and used as a fund raiser for the townships library system. In the fall of 1996, Shawn completed another series of works, five wildlife and four wildflower paintings which were also produced in limited print form. These images bring his total number of works in print to more than thirty.
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A long time contributor to Ducks Unlimited, this artist was honoured to be selected as feature artist for the Peterborough chapter, for a second time, in 1993. Since then he went on to compete and win in the Ducks Unlimited Canada National Art Print Portfolio Competition in 2004. His painting, Fading Memories-Ouse River Bridge, was one of only a few images to win in the competition that featured the Canadian landscape.

Shawn continues to strive towards completing works that have inspired him. Of late, the vast amount of his time has been spent completing numerous commissions for an ever growing international clientele. His works of art can now be found around the world.