About Jason Fuller, artist

I am a native of Tuscumbia, Alabama. I lived in a rural area surrounding this quaint, small town and developed a taste and love for art early in life.

My first art experience was drawing an overly muscular action figure, sparking an interest in illustration and human form, which manifested itself in less than a deeply perceptive manner. I continued to draw these kinds of action drawings-along with portraits and other realistic subjects- all through high school. I received some training there in our school art program, awarding me a scholarship that helped me go on to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in Art from the University of North Alabama in Florence, the city where I now reside. The professors there were able to find my strengths and redirect me to add training to the illustrative, detail-attentive style that I had loved all my life.

Through starting on one end of art and training toward another, I developed a broad range of interests that I am now able to express though various media. Pencil, pen and ink, acrylic, oil, photography, and computer imaging are my mainstays, although experimentation to find the unique is most fun. I usually find that my paintings and pastels are used more to express my feelings on certain areas of life.

As most artists, I paint or draw subjects that move me- musical themes, simple life or third-world country life, and immortalizing that which is soon leaving this world. Maybe I see the latter as a kind act for an unsuspecting subject. The aforementioned categories are generally done naturalistically, although I feel that my expression of music tends to be more ethereal or abstract.

A mission trip to Guatemala moved me for poverty-stricken nations and has been a reoccurring theme since. I have also developed a love for photography, having interests in subjects from flora and fauna to portrait to abstract.

Official Website: www.jfullerart.com