Violet Fuller (26 July 1920 – 2006) was a British artist who painted in oils and watercolours and was a prolific exhibitor.

Biography

Born in

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in north London, Fuller attended the

Hornsey School of Art Hornsey College of Art, also known as HCA, founded in 1880 as the Hornsey School of Arts, was an art school in Crouch End, part of Hornsey, Middlesex, England. From 1965 it was in the London Borough of Haringey. From 1955 to 1973, when it was ...

from 1937 to 1940 and then the Stroud School of Art from 1942 to 1944. Beginning in 1958, Fuller had a series of solo exhibitions at the Woodstock Gallery in London, with subsequent shows in 1961, 1963 and 1967. Other solo exhibitions of her work were held at the Loggia Gallery and the Old Bakehouse Gallery in

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. Fuller was a regular exhibitor in group shows at the

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in London, with the

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, the

New English Art Club The New English Art Club (NEAC) is a society for contemporary artists that was founded in London, England, in 1886 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. The NEAC holds an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries ...

, the

Women's International Art Club The Women's International Art Club, briefly known as the Paris International Art Club, was founded in Paris in 1900. The club was intended to "promote contacts between women artists of all nations and to arrange exhibitions of their work", and ...

and the

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. She was a founding member, and later, a Fellow of the Society of Free Painters and Sculptors. London street scenes regularly featured in her paintings and both the London Boroughs of Enfield and

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hold examples.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, Violet 1920 births 2006 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of Middlesex University Artists from the London Borough of Haringey English women painters People from Tottenham 20th-century British women painters