Iain Faulkner's paintings are essentially self portraits, where, unusually, the subject is fugitive and mysterious. He remains concealed in plain sight, his back to us or turned away, an archetypal male figure, thoughtful and absorbed. What we see on first approaching these paintings is a particular and meticulous recording of a certain atmospheric moment. A figure, or pair of figures, often accompanied by a vintage car, or cars, are located in a carefully defined landscape or architectural space. The composition is modelled and revealed by an evocative early-morning light or twilight.
