Artist, born in Poole, Dorset, who studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art & Design, 1984–5, and Chelsea College of Art, 1985–8 and 1994–5. In 2004, the year when he shared an exhibition at the Michael Naimski Gallery, Shepherd won the first Visitors’ Choice Prize at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition with his oil on canvas Piper at the gates of dawn. He participated in Art in the 90s, Pure Fantasy, at Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno in 1997, becoming artist-in-residence there, 1998. From 2000, Shepherd exhibited solo at Clapham Art Gallery, also at Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University, 2003.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)

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