"Whyman's unusual Sculptures presents us with genuine innovation. Whyman's over-sized Steel figures - performing fanciful arabesques, frenetic leaps or playful pivots - radiate a loose-limbed exuberance based on exaggeration of posture and precarious balance. Yet each is anatomically correct and can be identified with viscerally. Their lively gestures are underscored by the seemingly spontaneous, and gestural use of the torch cutting the steel shapes welded together with the addition of selected found steel scraps.  Tubular, angle and beam altered shapes. The Planar abstract figures recall Picasso's expressionistic Paintings of Dancers (especially his 1925 Dancers), their silhouettes displaying a fluidity similar to line drawing. Instead of dominated by the ponderous formalism characteristic of much steel sculpture.

Whyman's work is expressively plastic. He uses steel in the tradition of bronze figurative sculpture: to convey humane sentiments.

By, Suzanne Boettger