"Your paintings are a clear realization of a person with a modern sensibility of impressionistic romance."
-Thomas Sydorick, Obie winning Playwright and Director

"...what amazing paintings and works on paper. So incredible, such beauty and sensitivity and color and impact."
-Susan Hapgood, Director, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York

Whitaker grew up in rural settings on the East Coast. Inspired by the light, weight and pictorial form of Nature and the expressive quality of oil paint itself, Whitaker weaves together the figure and landscape to create a palpable vision of oneness and poetic connection between nature and the individual. His subjects emerge out of the light, as he seeks to reveal the dynamic presence of the “ineluctable moment” in his work.