Voices of Experience - Stuart Fullerton

“. . . this is a long game, and there are going to be many setbacks and defeats along the way, no doubt. But if we can be happy with learning and with those minor victories that come our way now and then, we will surprise ourselves over time with how far we’ve come.”

Rio Grande 8 x 8” Oil

Stuart Fullerton came to painting later in life, first picking up charcoal and later oil paints in his forties after practicing law as a federal prosecutor in Chicago. Fullerton studied ancient languages and civilizations at Harvard College, continuing on at Harvard Law School. He wrote to us about his early upbringing, his transition to art and the importance of teaching to his work as an artist:

I wasn’t particularly artistic as a child. I loved learning, however, and my family was very supportive of that—whatever it was that I was interested in. My mother was the creative one. My father was a doctor, interested in science and history, but he also had an…