Background
John Faulkner was born in London, England in 1918. At the age of nineteen he joined the London Rifle Brigade and served during World War II in France. He studied at St. Martin's School of Art in London and Brighton College of Art ,Sussex, England where he obtained his Masters in Fine Art.He traveled extensively in Europe, studied under Francois Desnoyer French Painter (1894-1972) in Sete, France.Taught painting in Spain and Renaissance Art in Italy. He lived in Cornwall in the South West of England before coming to California to live in 1967. He taught Drawing, Painting and Art History at the University of Santa Cruz, California, as well as Art History at the Junior Colleges: Cabrillo, Monterey Peninsular, Foothill and Deanza and at the Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts (The Seeds of Contemporary Art) in Saratoga, California he taught an eight week painting workshop between 1970 and 1980. In 1969, together with British Artist Peter Blythe, John held Landscape workshops at Cabrillo College. In March of 1969 John lectured on Art History and held workshops in landscape painting through University of California Extension. In England John was a faculty member for nine years at Cornwall' s Reduth School of Art., Redruth, Cornwall, England. John had exhibited with many-noted Cornish and British Artists: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Denis Mitchel, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, Gillian Ayres, and Victor Passmore to name a few. He was a member of the Artist International Association in London as well as the Newlyn and Penwith Societies in Cornwall. He carried out murals for ships of the Svenska Lloyd Shipping Company in Sweden as well as murals and relief's for new schools of the Cornwall Education Committee. One Mural is at St, Stephens School in Cornwall. He also did stage Design for Exeter University. He lectured on Contemporary Art at Salford Art Gallery in Manchester which was sponsored by Carnegie Bequest. In 1954 John was Art Master at Woodbridge School in Suffolk. He created and designed décor and sets for The Dramatic Society of Woodbridge School's presentation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The School for Scandal". John formed the Woodbridge Art Group in Woodbridge, Suffolk in the early 1950's, which came about through classes he taught at Abbey School in Woodbridge. John Faulkner : one-man Exhibitions Atelier Vincitore Gallery, (1966) Brighton, England, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, UCSC, Santa Cruz, Ca.,Stevenson College, UCSC, Santa Cruz, Ca.,Monterey Peninsular Gallery, Monterey, Ca.,Cupola Gallery, Santa Cruz, Ca., Cedar Street Gallery, (1978) Santa Cruz, Ca.,Group Shows:The Young Contemporaries, London, England The Royal Academy of Art, London, England The Pastel Society, London, England The Festival of Britain 1951, London, England Sussex Artists, Brighton, Sussex Suffolk Artists, (3rd Annual Exhibition 1958) Ipswich, Sussex, The Penwith Society, St. Ives, Cornwall, The Newlyn Society, Cornwall, Artist International Society, London, The Collectors Choice Gallery, Carmel, Ca., The Philip Trapp Gallery, (1978) Carmel, Ca., The Linda Macadoo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Greenleaf Gallery, Saratoga, Ca., Santa Cruz Art Museum, Santa Cruz Art League (Statewide Sculpture Show 1989) Santa Cruz, Ca.,Tona Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca., Gallery Mack, Carmel, Ca., Fireside Gallery, Carmel, Ca., John Miller Gallery, (1983) Carmel, Ca., CSULB, Long Beach, Ca., Dales Bistro, (1992) Los Angeles, Ca., Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, (Santa Cruz Invitational 1989) Cowell College, UCSC Santa Cruz, Ca., Village Gallery, Capitola, Ca., The Monterey Peninsular Museum of Art, (Two Man Show with Artist Robert Vestal) Monterey, Ca., Pope Gallery, (1994 Angels Exhibit) Santa Cruz, Ca., The Chaminade, (Investigating Realism) Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, Ca., The Connecticut Pastel Society, (1993) Wallingford, CT., Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce "8th Annual Wine Festival", Santa Cruz, Ca., The Santa Cruz County Convention & Visitors Bureau, Santa Cruz, Ca., Open Studio's Santa Cruz County Ca (1980-1992) He has work in private collections in England, Canada, France, Florence and Rome (Italy)(, Barcelona(Spain), and Switzerland as well as the United States.The Steen and Michalak Collection, Santa Cruz, Ca., Dr Kenneth Larsen Collection, Santa Cruz, Ca.
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