Born in Dundee and educated at Harris Academy, he attended the Dundee School of Art from 1924-1926 and then Glasgow School of Art where, in 1927, he won a travelling scholarship and prizes for portrait and landscape. In 1929 he took the Painting Diploma, winning a post-diploma scholarship, and became Assistant Art Teacher at Glasgow School of Art 1930-1932.
He was also executing medical diagrams at about this time for the Glasgow Royal Infirmary
A series of portrait commissions brought him down to London in 1933, and he subsequently referred to these years as the most unsatisfactory period of his artistic life. He became a lecturer at Shoreditch Training College from 1937 until he joined the National Fire Service in 1941. In 1943 he was drafted by the Ministry of Labour to Napiers Aircraft Factory in Acton where he worked as a technical assistant, aero-engine tester and draughtsman, returning to Shoreditch in 1945 to resume his duties. He was appointed Senior Art Lecturer in 1947 and remained at Shoreditch until 1954. Thereafter he had a number of part-time teaching posts, including Ealing School of Art, St Martin’s School of Art and the Sir John Cass School of Art. He retired in 1974, somewhat reluctantly as he had always enjoyed teaching - and was indeed an inspiring teacher with an unrivalled ability to bring out the best in his students. He was also happy to be a student himself in later life, attending sculpture classes for some years; his stone and marble carvings display his superb feeling for form
His remaining years were spent in West Sussex producing, as always, an amazing amount of work, but now mainly water-colours, drawings, monoprints etc. rather than oil paintings. He was an exceptionally fine figure draughtsman, and this is apparent even in his more abstract and adventurous work. He also enjoyed still-life subjects and there are many examples of these in virtually every medium, including lithographs, screen-prints and monoprints etc.
1930 and 1931 McClure Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; 1932 Dundee, Scotland; 1932-33 Glasgow, Scotland; 1933 Whyte’s Gallery, Washington USA; 1939 Contemporary Scottish Art, Washington USA; 1954 Via Lima, Rome; 1955 Babuinetta Gallery, Rome; 1958 Everyman Foyer Gallery, Hampstead, London; 1959 Babuinetta Gallery, Rome (April and October); 1960 Everyman Foyer Gallery, Hampstead, London; 1961 Richmond Hill Gallery; 1961 Monseigneur, Marble Arch, London; 1961 Hyde Park Gallery; 1962 Everyman Foyer Gallery; 1963 New End Gallery, Hampstead, London; Boston & New York USA; 1972 Everyman Foyer Gallery, Hampstead, London; 1975 St Blaise Gallery, Stockwell College, Bromley; 1983 Grass Roots Gallery, Durban, South Africa; 1987 Lizard Gallery, Farnham
The Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Institute of Fine Arts; Society of Scottish Painters; Contemporary Scottish Art; Leicester Gallery; Redfern Gallery; St George’s; Royal Society of British Artists; London Group; New English Art Club; Brighton 1948; Senefelder Club Exhibitions; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers; Victoria & Albert Museum (1948: 150 Years of Lithography)
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Young lady in a hat
Toby Horne Shepherd
15in h x 11in w
lithograph on paper
£275 framed
Item number 7300
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2 nude women
Toby Horne Shepherd
15in h x 11in w
watercolour on paper
£204 framed
Item number 7311
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Cubist still life with bottle
Toby Horne Shepherd
15in h x 10in w
mixed media on paper
£260 framed
Item number 7312
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Two nude women
Toby Horne Shepherd
13in h x 10in w
watercolour on paper
£260 framed
Item number 7313
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2 naked models posing
Toby Horne Shepherd
15in h x 10in w
watercolour on paper
£260 framed
Item number 7345
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Seated nude posing
Toby Horne Shepherd
15in h x 11in w
watercolour on paper
£260 framed
Item number 7347
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Seated female nude
Toby Horne Shepherd
11in h x 11in w
watercolour on paper
£260 framed
Item number 7348
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Cubist still life with rose
Toby Horne Shepherd
11in h x 15in w
watercolour on paper
£260 framed
Item number 7428
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Still life with rose.
Toby Horne Shepherd
18in h x 23in w
Screen print on paper
£280 framed
Item number 7967
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Anemones
Toby Horne Shepherd
20in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 7973
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The seasons: Autumn
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£280 framed
Item number 8055
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Totem
Toby Horne Shepherd
22in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£280 framed
Item number 7998
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Italian garden
Toby Horne Shepherd
25in h x 19in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8062
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Fruit dish
Toby Horne Shepherd
18in h x 21in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8002
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Still life
Toby Horne Shepherd
18in h x 21in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8005
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The seasons Spring
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8007
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Growth 2
Toby Horne Shepherd
24in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8011
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Growth
Toby Horne Shepherd
24in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8014
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Striptease 1
Toby Horne Shepherd
24in h x 19in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8027
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Reclining Figure
Toby Horne Shepherd
17in h x 21in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8029
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Daphnis and Chloe
Toby Horne Shepherd
23in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8032
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Reclining figure
Toby Horne Shepherd
17in h x 23in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8049
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The Bathers
Toby Horne Shepherd
18in h x 15in w
Screen print on paper
£280 framed
Item number 8051
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Still life by window
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8053
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Still life with anemones
Toby Horne Shepherd
20in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8054
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Two Reds 2nd edition
Toby Horne Shepherd
23in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£313 framed
Item number 8058
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Abstract figure
Toby Horne Shepherd
24in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8059
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Genesis
Toby Horne Shepherd
24in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8060
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Vases on a table
Toby Horne Shepherd
17in h x 20in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8061
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Black and white
Toby Horne Shepherd
24in h x 19in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8064
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Abstract
Toby Horne Shepherd
24in h x 19in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8065
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Abstract
Toby Horne Shepherd
23in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8066
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Abstract grid structure
Toby Horne Shepherd
23in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8067
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Queen of Hearts
Toby Horne Shepherd
23in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8068
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Swallows
Toby Horne Shepherd
25in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8069
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Leaves
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8070
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The pier
Toby Horne Shepherd
24in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8071
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Reflections
Toby Horne Shepherd
17in h x 21in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8072
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Vortex
Toby Horne Shepherd
20in h x 16in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8510
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Girl bathing
Toby Horne Shepherd
23in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8074
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Bathers
Toby Horne Shepherd
20in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8075
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Still life with fish
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 16in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8076
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Still life with fish 5
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8078
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Still life with fish 2
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8079
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Still life with fish 4
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8080
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Still life with fish 3
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8081
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Still life with fish 1
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8082
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Bottles
Toby Horne Shepherd
21in h x 18in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8083
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Girl bathing
Toby Horne Shepherd
26in h x 17in w
Screen print on paper
£350 framed
Item number 8089
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Plants Abstract
Toby Horne Shepherd
17in h x 20in w
Screen print on paper
£320 framed
Item number 8099
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