Jim Whalen has been involved with visual arts all of his life, drawing inspiration from both the world around him and his inner spiritual life and expressing it through color, line and form. -- ''Whether I'm exploring nature, or man's imprint upon it, or human emotion or spirit, color is at the foundation of the metaphor. Whether my work is representational or non-representational, I deconstruct a moment, a place, or a feeling and recreate it in line, form and color. The essential thing, for me, is to offer a visual expression of those things in our human experience that words cannot express.'' -- Jim...more