I'm Van Evan Fuller in St. George, Louisiana, USA. I have been a commercial illustrator and cartoonist since 1980, working then—of course!—with ink, paint and paper. In 1991 I ended up at a newspaper, where I was introduced to the Macintosh. At first I condemned it as a tool of the Dark Lord. Then I discovered that I had a knack for it, and I decided it wasn’t. I won all sorts of awards for my newspaper work, and they gave me lots of little wooden plaques that worked beautifully as cheese boards.
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Unlike a traditional painter, a commercial artist works under deadlines and must re-invent himself on a regular basis to accommodate the requirements of a given project. I am now mercifully free of deadlines and bosses. But I still re-invent myself continually, seeking only to please myself—and you, if I can.
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My career is an ongoing experiment in swallowing up every imaginable artistic style, philosophy and subject. Whether I'm versatile or suffering from multiple personality disorder, I cannot say. People have described me as a post-modernist, and I will go along with that because it sounds so intellectual and pretentious.
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Categorizing art is like herding cats, so don't expect the gallery titles to be of much use. My entire collection includes nearly 3,000 pieces, and it will take a while to post them all, so please visit often. If you let me know you're coming, I'll make coffee.