Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born in Dorset. She attended Bournemouth College of Art, 1978–9; studied printmaking at Ravensbourne College of Art, 1979–82; then worked for her master’s at Chelsea School of Art, 1982–3. She spent two years in South America, part of a two-man team making anthropological films of the Canai Indians of Ecuador, and also worked there as an illustrator of short books on the mythology of an Amazonian group. Among Faulkner’s group appearances were Young Contemporaries, ICA, 1981. In 1983 she had a solo show at Woodlands Art Gallery. Her work there and works held by Arts Council, bought from Angela Flowers, 1983, were much concerned with women. Plymouth Arts Centre included Faulkner in a three-artist exhibition in 1996.