Miller Fine Art & Framing | Featured Artists: Henry Faulkner

Henry was born in Simpson County KY. He was the 10th child of John Milton and Bessie Lee Faulkner. Henry later in life would claim Egypt, KY as his birthplace. Egypt sounded more fitting for a critically acclaimed artist.

His most pronounced traits artistry, poetry, reverence for nature, love for animals, his restlessness and disdain for social convention, shaped him from early life. Henry hadn't decided to become a painter, at least in a professional sense, until he was nearly thirty years old. By the early sixties he was garnering good reviews from newspaper and magazine critics and making enough money in gallery sales to live without resorting to the indignity of a job.

To the public, Faulkner was the eccentric rebel who brought his bourbon drinking goat Alice to parties and exhibitions of his paintings. Apart from the obvious striving for attention, his bizarre behavior was the natural expression of an unceasing and unblushing childlike wonder at the world around him, and of an unusual sensitivity to beauty.

(exert from; The Outrageous Life of Henry Faulkner written by Charles House)