Art Collection

Robin Faulkner

Downers Grove Public Library
(paintings on paper)
Acquired: 1985, 1999
Location: First Floor Meeting Room

Artist Robin Faulkner has created four historical paintings of buildings that have housed the Downers Grove Public Library. The works employ gouache, pencil, and watercolors. Three were commissioned by the Downers Grove Friends of the Library and completed in the 1980's. Owner Services, Inc. donated the fourth for the dedication of the new building in 1999.

Faulkner has a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois and teaches at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire. She has worked as an exhibit preparer and sculptor/illustrator for major Chicago museums including the Field Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Children's Museum, and the Shedd Aquarium. Her favorite medium is egg tempera, and her philosophy of painting is, "Trust your eyes. Trust your hand to follow your eyes. Trust your intuition. Breathe."