MAURICE SHEPPARD PPRWS, NEAC, MA (RCA)
Born: Llangwm, Pembrokeshire, 1947
Educated: Llangwn National School
Haverfordwest Grammar School.
Further Education: 1966-67: Loughborough College of Art.
1967-70: Kingston Upon Thames College of Art
Scholarships and Awards: 1965: Scholarship to Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales
Eisteddfod Maldwyn.
1971: British Institution Award, Royal Academy.
1972: David Murray Landscape Award.
1973: Geoffrey Crawshay Memorial Travel Scholarship,
University of Wales.
Appointments:
Elected Associate Royal Watercolour Society - 1974
Elected Full Member Royal Watercolour Society - 1977
Vice-President Royal Watercolour Society - 1979
President Royal Watercolour Society - 1984-87
Trustee Royal Watercolour Society - 1983-95
Elected Member of the New English Art Club - 2000
One-Man Exhibitions:
New Grafton Gallery - 1979
The Aldeburgh Cinema (Mrs. Letty Gifford0 - 1981
Christopher Wood Gallery - 1989
Mixed Exhibitions:
Langton Gallery, Agnews, The Mall Gallery, The Discerning Eye, The Hunting Group,
Singer-Friedlander/Sunday Times (Watercolour Competition), Century Gallery, Datchet;
Jonleigh Gallery, Guildford; Nevill Gallery, Canterbury; Hilary Thomson Dredge;
New Grafton Gallery; Nicholas Bowlby, Tonbridge Wells; Hicks Gallery, Wimbledon; Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast & Dublin; Paris Salon du Mai; Royal Dutch Watercolour Society, The Hague; West Coast Watercolour Society of America; Basque Watercolour Society; Prouds PTY, Australia; Mitsukoshi, Japan. Whittington Fine Art, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.
Public Collections:
British Museum (Royal Watercolour Society - Diploma Collection)
Victoria & Albert Museum.
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery.
Carlisle City Museum, Tullie House.
Glynn Vivian Museum and Art Gallery, Swansea.
Beecroft Museum and Art Gallery, Westcliffe on Sea, Southend.
Contemporary Art Society of Wales.
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Industrial Collections & Commissions:
Croda International, Blue Circle Group, Canary Wharf Development Company, H.O.R. (Oil) UK. Ltd., W.H.Smith, Boots, Greenwoods, Hambro's Merchant Bank, MBNA International Bank of America Ltd. (11 works 1974-95), Cloke and Co.
Private Collections:
H.M. The Queen, H.M. The Queen Mother.
Lady Jane Wellesley, Lady Serena Rothchild, Lady Alice Fairfax-Lucy, Lord and Lady Carrington, Lord and Lady Pym, Lord Archer, Lord Inglewood, Lord and Lady Mayhew, Sir Francis Beaumont, Sir Brindley Ford, His Honour Judge Gilliland, His Honour Judge William George, Andrew Wilton, Norman Newell, David White, Brian Greenwood, Mark Glazebrook, Justin Coldwell, Dr. Chris Beetles, James and Caroline Knox, Cyril and Shirley Fry, etc.
Special Projects Include:
"The Golden Valley" - Painting created for Lord Richard Attenborough's film "Shadowlands"
"The Resurrection of the Earth - Mural for St. Martin's Church Hall. Commissioned by Rev. Canon Richard Williams, Mayor of Haverfordwest and the Communion of St. Martin's Church, Haverfordwest.
Dr. Lynn Perry Retirement Gift, Purchased by Public Subscription - Haverfordwest.
"Castlerig Stone Circle" - Limited Edition Reproduction for Pike Print Patrons, Cumbria.
"Haverfordwest Under Snow" - Limited Edition Reproduction for St. Martin's Church.
"Miss Jones Cottage, Hook" - Edition of Etchings for the Restoration of the Great Organ, St. Mary's Church, Haverfordwest.
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