IAIN FAULKNER
	FOREWORD From the back of his head to the heel of his shoe, the youngish man clad in the white shirt crisscrossed by a pair of suspenders is Iain Faulkner's "everyman." And the artist has left it up to us to determine whether his focus is on the future or the past, on his dreams or his memories. In his previous exhibitions, the world Iain Faulkner had created centered on the everyday scenes of life. We have come to know this artist through his multi-character compositions revolving around ordinary occurrences to which we could all relate. Yet in these genre scenes, Faulkner had somehow managed to leave the scenario open. To an important degree, he invited us to interpret the action or relationship of the participants. Now, he has removed all the players save for the protagonist. Faulkner has transported him into a select and refined reality where it is possible to listen only to the voices within or to hear just the faintest echoes of the world around us. Faceless, with no absolute identity, we can step into the shoes of the solitary figure and take the time to reflect - time that our own lives often don't allow. The two settings Faulkner has chosen for these contemplative works are in their own way iconic symbols of nature and man. The pristine lochs of Scotland may represent the elemental source from which life began. Water is the conceptual embodiment of the fluidity of time and is a force to which we all seem to be drawn. The latter locale is an architectural wonder - a man-made thing of beauty. A passage of repetitive archways, it stands as the personification of human strength, ingenuity and perseverance. And when we find ourselves in these surroundings, they can alternately inspire us to dream larger or to see ourselves in the context of an infinite universe. Iain Faulkner is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, receiving his Bachelor's Degree in 1996. In the relatively short time since his graduation, he has had multiple exhibitions in England, Scotland, Spain and the United States. In his most recent body of work, Iain Faulkner continues to draw us in...inviting each of us to participate in his vision of the human experience.
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