Night Crossing

Originally one of the Kitchen Sink school of painters which also included John Bratby (b.1928), Fullard's interests changed considerably in the late 1950s. His work became open to a wide range of influences, most notably that of primitive and children's art. Much of his work was based on childhood memories. Night Crossing is a construction mixing found objects with a specially fashioned brass propeller. Its child-like quality lends poignancy to its sensuous undertones. During the 1960s onwards, images of war and destruction of the innocent recur obsessively in Fullard's work. Fullard himself was severely wounded during the Second World War.