His studies were interrupted by his military service in the First World War in the Arts Rifles (Machine Gun Corps division) where he met Borlase Smart (November 3^rd). Fuller and Smart agreed that if they both survived the War then they would establish a painting school in St. Ives.

After being demobbed, he returned to the Royal Academy School where he met and subsequently married a fellow student, Marjorie Mostyn (October 19^th).

He spent twenty years teaching in various schools before moving to St. Ives where he did, finally, establish the ‘St Ives School of Painting’ (Porthmeor Studios) with his wife and Smart and he became a founder member of the ‘Penwith Society of Artists’, supporting the new wave of St. Ives artists including Barbara Hepworth (May 20^th) and Ben Nicholson (February 6^th).  

Fuller became one of his period’s most famous portrait artists, painting Sir Terry Frost (October 13^th) and his son (left below).

He was also renowned for his depictions of indoor life including ‘Lanhams Framing Shop’ (1962) (below left).

He became involved with all aspects of life in St Ives, serving as chairman of the St Ives Society of Artists. A founder member of the Penwith Society of Artists, he was known for his sympathetic views to new ideas and modernism.  His school of painting was also an invaluable resource for several of the younger artists who gathered round St Ives including Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon (August 31^st), Bryan Winter (September 8^th), Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (June 8^th), Sven Berlin (September 11^th) and John Wells (July 28^th).

Fuller’s wife, Marjorie Mostyn was a renowned portraitist in her own right and one of her most famous paintings was of her own husband (pictured below right).