Toby Horne Shepherd

Born: 1909
Died: 1993

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)
    

All the works we have by Toby Horne Shepherd

Young lady in a hat Toby Horne Shepherd 15in h x 11in w lithograph on paper £275 framed Item number 7300	2 nude women Toby Horne Shepherd 15in h x 11in w watercolour on paper £204 framed Item number 7311
Cubist still life with bottle Toby Horne Shepherd 15in h x 10in w mixed media on paper £260 framed Item number 7312	Two nude women Toby Horne Shepherd 13in h x 10in w watercolour on paper £260 framed Item number 7313
2 naked models posing Toby Horne Shepherd 15in h x 10in w watercolour on paper £260 framed Item number 7345	Seated nude posing Toby Horne Shepherd 15in h x 11in w watercolour on paper £260 framed Item number 7347
Seated female nude Toby Horne Shepherd 11in h x 11in w watercolour on paper £260 framed Item number 7348	Cubist still life with rose Toby Horne Shepherd 11in h x 15in w watercolour on paper £260 framed Item number 7428
Still life with rose. Toby Horne Shepherd 18in h x 23in w Screen print on paper £280 framed Item number 7967	Anemones Toby Horne Shepherd 20in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 7973
The seasons: Autumn Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £280 framed Item number 8055	Totem Toby Horne Shepherd 22in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £280 framed Item number 7998
Italian garden Toby Horne Shepherd 25in h x 19in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8062	Fruit dish Toby Horne Shepherd 18in h x 21in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8002
Still life Toby Horne Shepherd 18in h x 21in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8005	The seasons Spring Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8007
Growth 2 Toby Horne Shepherd 24in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8011	Growth Toby Horne Shepherd 24in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8014
Striptease 1 Toby Horne Shepherd 24in h x 19in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8027	Reclining Figure Toby Horne Shepherd 17in h x 21in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8029
Daphnis and Chloe Toby Horne Shepherd 23in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8032	Reclining figure Toby Horne Shepherd 17in h x 23in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8049
The Bathers Toby Horne Shepherd 18in h x 15in w Screen print on paper £280 framed Item number 8051	Still life by window Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8053
Still life with anemones Toby Horne Shepherd 20in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8054	Two Reds 2nd edition Toby Horne Shepherd 23in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £313 framed Item number 8058
Abstract figure Toby Horne Shepherd 24in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8059	Genesis Toby Horne Shepherd 24in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8060
Vases on a table Toby Horne Shepherd 17in h x 20in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8061	Black and white Toby Horne Shepherd 24in h x 19in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8064
Abstract Toby Horne Shepherd 24in h x 19in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8065	Abstract Toby Horne Shepherd 23in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8066
Abstract grid structure Toby Horne Shepherd 23in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8067	Queen of Hearts Toby Horne Shepherd 23in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8068
Swallows Toby Horne Shepherd 25in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8069	Leaves Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8070
The pier Toby Horne Shepherd 24in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8071	Reflections Toby Horne Shepherd 17in h x 21in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8072
Vortex Toby Horne Shepherd 20in h x 16in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8510	Girl bathing Toby Horne Shepherd 23in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8074
Bathers Toby Horne Shepherd 20in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8075	Still life with fish Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 16in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8076
Still life with fish 5 Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8078	Still life with fish 2 Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8079
Still life with fish 4 Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8080	Still life with fish 3 Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8081
Still life with fish 1 Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8082	Bottles Toby Horne Shepherd 21in h x 18in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8083
Girl bathing Toby Horne Shepherd 26in h x 17in w Screen print on paper £350 framed Item number 8089	Plants Abstract Toby Horne Shepherd 17in h x 20in w Screen print on paper £320 framed Item number 8099

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