| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Born in Edmonton, Gerald Faulder is a landscape painter who earned his B.F.A. at the University of Alberta (1982). He participated in Emma Lake Artist Workshops through Calgary’s Leighton Foundation (1989, 1990, 1991), and taught at the Edmonton Art Gallery (1985). He’s served on the Organising Committee for artist studio visits by Clement Greenberg and Valentin Tatransky, and as a board member (1993 – present) for and president (1995) of the Edmonton Contemporary Artists Society.
Faulder spent much of his career painting acrylic onto canvas, but by 2007 switched to painting oil onto a range of media including canvas, panel, and paper. Explaining his change, he said, “Making a big shift like this is both frightening and exciting at the same time, but your art needs to keep evolving. Oil is a great medium that I used to paint with years ago. It gives me more time to work on the images as well. The oil with gel I’m using lets me poke at the paint more.”
The images in Faulder’s paintings exclude most traces of human activity or construction except for roads. Fascinated by Alberta’s vistas, Faulder created a plein air series depicting Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper, and the Bow Valley; he’s also created homages to the North Saskatchewan River.
Faulder has mounted numerous solo exhibitions such as Marking the Valley, 7 Years in the City, and The Western Canadian Landscape in Edmonton, Calgary, Banff, Saskatoon, and Grand Forks, B.C. His work lives in dozens of collections, including those of the Winspear Centre for Music, the University of Alberta, Big Rock Brewery, TELUS, and the Canada Council Art Bank. |