Andrew Faulkner is a California-based abstract landscape painter whose richly layered oil and cold wax compositions transform memory, light, and the emotional residue of place into color-driven meditations that hover between representation and pure abstraction. Shaped by a creative lineage of painters, architects, and designers and mentored in color theory by a student of Josef Albers, Andrew Faulkner brings a graphic designer's structural precision to a fine art practice built on intuition, experimentation, and the quiet power of light.
With deep ties to both Sausalito and the Maine coast, his paintings draw on hiking, sketching, and the patient process of returning to a single moment until shape and color feel true. Represented by Portland Art Gallery, Andrew Faulkner creates work that invites viewers into a space that is at once recognizable and entirely their own.
What does a former graphic designer whose illustrations appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times discover when he finally gives the canvas complete freedom?