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A new tribute painting of Saint Teresa of Calcutta by British expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
Born in Albania, Mother Teresa (1910-1997) answered an early calling to serve God, joining the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland in order to learn English , with the intention of becoming a missionary.
In 1946 on a train she felt she heard from Jesus, "Come be my Light...I cannot go alone" - and devoting her life to helping the poor, the homeless and the dying in India, she became the Mother to the Poor.
When she had taken her religious vows in 1931 she chose the name Teresa after Saint Teresa of Lisieux - and like many, including Saint Teresa of Lisieux , she had experienced throughout her life, a struggle with faith, even feeling separated from God - a darkness that troubled her and maybe drove her on with her good work.
She had opened her first hospice in 1952 and expressed her wish that a "a beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels - loved and wanted".
She was proclaimed a Saint in 2016 by Pope Francis ; two miracles of healing of cancer in 1998 and 2008 being attributed to her.
The artist - a Catholic convert since 2011 - created the tribute through the intensive research, photographic references and the prayers that generate all his work.
"Through darkness into light...humbly I hope my painting represents the eternal light that will forever be Mother Teresa's reward in heaven - and I pray for peace and any healing for all who view the image, faith or no faith" - Stephen B. Whatley, London, UK, April 2023.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta. 2023
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24in/76 x 61cm
German expressionism is one of my favourite movements of art. Here I am posing with a few of my books on the subject with the Otto Dix biography being highlighted. German expressionism was prevalent from the end of World War I until the early 1930s. With Hitler gaining power in January 1933, 'modern art' was endangered with many artists being arrested, fleeing the country or put in concentration camps as degenerates. A significant number of art works were either destroyed or ironically, confiscated by high ranking Nazis.
"Ocean Park, #60" 1973
oil on canvas
Richard Diebenkorn
The Anderson Collection
Stanford University, California
A new tribute painting celebrating the Centenary of British Airways painted by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
HM Queen Elizabeth II visited BA's headquarters close to Heathrow Airport on May 23, 2019 to commemorate the anniversary; having made many overseas flights during her reign aboard BOAC and BA aircraft.
Whatley has had a passion for watching planes since childhood, long before he ever flew. In the 1970s he enjoyed watching planes with his Aunt and Uncle who lived during that decade close to three airfields; first Biggin Hill in Kent, UK and then the USAF bases of Mildenhall and Lakenheath in Suffolk, UK.
The painter researched the history and sought passionately to capture the magnificence, power and speed of air travel.
In his distinctive vibrant colours and with dynamic brushstrokes, the artists captures the powerful essence of a contemporary twin engine jet, the Airbus A320 ; and retracing the history of BA, a BOAC Handley Page Hermes IV airliner from 1949 and a Vickers Vimy passenger craft from 1919 - the year when it was used to make the first direct flight across the North Atlantic.
The artist, whose work has been published in TIME, has a history of painting tributes in significant anniversary years.
Stephen B. Whatley has undertaken major commissions for the BBC, Buckingham Palace for the Royal Collection all painted on location ; and his series of 30 works commissioned in 2000 by the Tower of London are all permanently reproduced throughout Tower Hill Underpass, at Tower Hill Station, London.
In 2004 the artist was presented to HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in recognition of his work.
British Airways : Centenary Tribute. 2019
Oil on canvas,
36 x 48in/91 x 122cm
I find today that it is the Feast of The Holy Innocents, perhaps the youngest of martyrs......the day after selecting to pay tribute to the Divine Child Jesus (to whom I began a Novena on Christmas Day) by creating this pastel drawing- humbly I feel lead through prayers...life is full of discoveries & I pray it gives feelings of love and peace.
The image and history of the 20th century devotion originating in Columbia, that along with prayers, inspired it is in the book Illustrated Book of Jesus (William J Hirton & Co, 2011). The original statue portraying Infant Jesus dressed in pink, with arms outstretched to welcome all, dates from the 1940s…..Peace
~ Stephen B. Whatley, Catholic Artist, December 28, 2018
Novena to the Divine Child Jesus: www.ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/Novena_to_Divine_Child_J...
Divine Child Jesus. Christmas 2018 by Stephen B. Whatley
Pastel on paper; 16.5 x 11.5in/42 x 30cm