With an innate instinct for balancing composition, color and energy, H. Wesley Wheeler creates templates on which each of us may overlay our own sense of mood and meaning. In this way, he paints works of enduring appeal, as the "message" changes with the perceptions, personal experience and current mood of the viewer.

While Wheeler’s work is influenced by Mark Rothko’s atmospheric canvases and by the color palettes of Edward Hopper, Vincent van Gogh and others, he paints in his own individual style. His work falls into two principal categories: color field abstraction inspired by cityscapes, landscapes or seascapes, and what the artist calls "narrative abstraction," in which he uses graphite, charcoal and pastel pencil to draw recognizable forms within the layers of a more traditionally abstract environment. His works are intended to suggest a story, a memory or a feeling supplied by the viewer.

Wheeler describes himself as a "later blooming artist." He spent his career as a Fortune 300 executive but painted "in the closet" for much of his career in pursuit of a passion inherited from his mother, a portrait artist, and his uncle, a former curator for the Rockefeller Foundation and the Henry Ford Museum. Following retirement, Wheeler made his exhibition debut in 2005 with the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY. He has since exhibited in Massachusetts, New York City and Washington, DC. A long-time native of northern New Jersey, Wheeler currently resides in Ballston Spa, NY.