Jeremy Regan Faulkner’s work sits at the heart of Poetica — raw, unguarded and full of the kind of honesty people rarely say out loud. His text-based pieces move like diary entries left in public view, both vulnerable and quietly defiant. One of his most resonant works reads:
‘Struck with conviction, I proclaimed that I was going to be an artist. I then told my friend that we have one problem — I don’t know how to paint yet.’
It’s funny, exposed, and profoundly human — a perfect doorway into his practice.
A neighbour who has watched him work for years describes this impulse beautifully: ‘Little Jeremy reminds us all that there was once a spark inside us that wanted to create and inspires us to follow our heart’s desire and just do and be what we love.’ That spark is exactly what Jeremy protects. He paints as though technique, tradition and permission are distant concerns — freeing himself from the weight of doing things the ‘right’ way.
This resistance to convention is not a rejection of art, but a reclamation of it. His pieces hold tension and tenderness in equal measure: scrawled declarations, half-formed thoughts, confessions, jokes, fears, and small truths that land with the force of recognition. They read like the voice inside all of us — the one we rarely say aloud.
In Poetica, his works become something like emotional punctuation. Amid the quiet forms, ceramics and soft photography, Jeremy’s pieces interrupt the room with a kind of brave immediacy. They are reminders that art doesn’t need polish to matter — it needs presence, honesty, and the courage to say the thing.
Jeremy gives us that courage.
Jeremy Regan Faulker, the Artist, Available at Lara Hutton Concept Gallery & Store