Gordy Fine Art and Framing

Jim Faulkner

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Jim Faulkner studied at the Bryant School of Art in Virginia prior to attending Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Receiving both undergraduate and Master’s degrees at BSU, Faulkner taught there for thirteen years following a two year stint at Boise State University. During this time, he taught and practiced contemporary abstract art. Near the end of his college teaching in 1977, Faulkner returned to his background of realistic watercolor and sculpture. He found there “this search for the essence of what I believe and feel, for me, is truth.”

In 2008, Faulkner agreed to exhibit a new series of paintings at Gordy Fine Art and Framing, owned by two of his former students.

He described the group of paintings as “the result of my interest in the visual world I have been painting for over thirty years. I was...looking at some new color and texture I have been seeing in the world. It is really amazing how the visual senses change and develop with experience.

I am very taken by the constant change taking place in everything. The new that decays, becoming the old. In the natural world, both new and old seem to hold my interest. The renewing and then decline that leads to the beauty of the changing seasons... However, in the creations of man, the old has more meaning and interest for me. For example, an old house or barn, rather than new – and old car or tractor – an old farm gate or post, etc.

I paint the meadows, woods, homesteads, towns and people of the mid-west, trying to find meaning in the stillness of an abandoned farm, or the quiet of a snow-covered wood, or even the aging of the human face. If I find that meaning and quality, the painting is worthwhile to me and I hope, to the viewers of my work.”

Jim Faulkner paints full time the country homestead he shares with wife, Eleanor, and various cats and dogs. His studio is in a restored barn. He has received numerous awards throughout his painting career and is one of the most collected, and well-known artists of east central Indiana.