A woman who submitted art to competitions in The Argus is now preparing to exhibit her work in a gallery after she was sponsored by the newspaper as a child. Sharon Fuller, from Seaford, used to colour in pictures in an old Evening Argus competition when she was five years old. Sharon used to win so frequently that her mum received a letter from the Evening Argus asking her to enter the competitions for children aged ten and over.
Sharon said: “For this competition, you had to do a drawing or painting. One I remember putting together was of a boy on an elephant.” Little did six-year-old Sharon know, the competition was about to determine her career.
Sharon's art piece 'Comfort', inspired by her visits to the Cafe Drury in Hove (Image: Sharon Fuller) Sharon was visited at her school, Stanford Road Infants in Brighton , by an Argus journalist to verify that her drawings were being done by a child, not an adult. Sharon, 71, said: “The journalist also visited my mum and asked that I refrain from entering the competition in return for being sponsored to go to a Saturday morning club at Brighton Art College. READ MORE: Funeral details announced for 'devoted' Adrian Morris “It was an adults class, I was the only child there and I attended from when I was six to ten years old.
“I was from a very poor background, I wasn’t expected to do well in anything but this gave me some confidence in myself and a passion to pursue art.” Sharon's print of a busker outside the Co-op i.