Painter and lecturer, born in Glasgow, where he studied at the School of Art under David Donaldson, gaining his diploma in 1969. From that time he painted full-time while lecturing for Scottish Arts Council. He won the David Cargill Award, 1976, the Britoil Award, 1986. Fullarton used a broad palette, with colour the dominant feature, for portraits, landscape and still life in oil and acrylic. Showed with RSA and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Solo exhibitions included Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie; John D Kelly Gallery and Ewan Mundy Fine Art, both Glasgow; Macaulay Gallery, Stenton; new paintings at Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, 2001; and Thompson’s Gallery, 2004. Lillie Art Gallery, Robert Fleming Holdings and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, hold examples.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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