Mr. Faulkner's Boots, 2019

Jason Bouldin

Oil on canvas

H. 14½; W. 20" unframed
H. 22½; W. 28" framed

About the Artist

Jason Bouldin grew up on a cotton farm near Clarksdale, Mississippi. The family home sits in a pecan grove, which also shelters the studio where his father, artist Marshall Bouldin III, worked for more than half a century. Bouldin attended the University of Mississippi, where he studied science, and received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Harvard University in 1989.

After a two-year apprenticeship with his father, he began his professional career as a portrait painter in 1991. Since then, he has painted more than 200 commissioned portraits, among them public works hanging in locations such as the US Department of Agriculture, the Judiciary Committee Room of the US House of Representatives, Harvard University, Tulane University Law School, the Mississippi State Capitol, Willcox House (London, England), and more than a dozen US federal courthouses. He has also painted portraits of former Mississippi governor William Winter for the lobby of the William F. Winter Archives and History Building; Elise Winter, for the First Ladies Gallery of the Old Capitol Museum; and Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams, for the Mississippi Museum of Art.

Bouldin has attained national and international recognition for his portraits. He received first place for portraiture in Artist's Magazine's annual art competition in 1999 and won the Portrait Society of America's Grand Prize in 2002; his portraits have been selected nine times for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition in London, England.

Although he works primarily as a portrait artist, Bouldin also enjoys painting landscape and still life studies. He is a popular teacher of plein air classes, which he has presented at sites ranging from Atlanta's Piedmont Park to a cow pasture in Madison County.

Bouldin lives in Oxford with his wife, Alicia, and son, William.

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