An Online Exhibition of the Work Harold Shelton RE (1913-1994)
Harold Shelton was a teacher, painter, designer and printmaker. He was discovered by the artist William Green working as ticket collector at Wallasey Station. He studied at Wallasey college of Art from 1934 to 39. After the war , he became principal of Carlisle School of Art. Subsequently he became principal of Hornsey Colleg of Art. While he was there he faced a student revolt against his strong academic leanings. This was nationwide news and was known as the Hornsey Affair, which is now visible on YouTube. The students eventually locked Shelton in a cupboard! He stayed on as head after the revolt to make the College a Polytechnic but failing to make it a University. His wife Joanna, was also a painter , they met at Carlisle, and together they set up a Visual Research Department at Hornsey.
Shelton’s work in watercolour is largely unknown, yet he was a talented painter, influenced by Ravilious, Nash and even Bawden.
Most of these watercolours are unframed, so we are able to send them through the post in a tube.
Welsh Hills
watercolour and crayon, 16ins x 22ins, £280.00
Woodland Study
watercolour and ink, 11ins x 15ins
£220.00
The Gate out of the Walled garden
watercolour , signed 16ins x 22ins , unframed £380.00
Fallen Tree over a River
watercolour and ink,unframed, 11ins x 14ins , £220.00
Table top Still life
watercolour, 16ins x 22ins , £320.00
Solitary tree
watercolour, unframed 16ins x 22ins. £220
Still Life on a Round Table
watercolour, 30ins x 23ins , £680.00
River side Church
watercolour, 16ins x 22ins , £320.00, unframed
Prawns and Mackerel
watercolour, unframed, 16ins x 22ins £460.00
Wood Pile and Stone Wall
watercolour, 16ins x 22ins unframed £480.00
Marrows
watercolour on board,
Framed , 12ins x 24ins, £800
Magic Mushrooms
watercolour and crayon, unframed ,
13ins x 10ins, £200.00
Rocky Welsh landscape
watercolour, signed and dated 1955,unframed , 23ins x 31ins , £680.00
The Top of the Downs
watercolour and Ink, unframed,15ins x 22ins , £360.00
Foot of the Downs
watercolour and Ink , 16ins x 22ins £380.00
Cabbages
watercolour, 16ins x 22ins, £420.00
Shelton
watercolour, 16ins x 22ins unframed , £280.00
View through an Orchard
signed ,16ins x 22ins , unframed
£380.00
Stumps in a Wood
watercolour, signed , 16ins x 22ins , £420.00
Woodland Walk
watercolour and ink, unframed,14ins x 14ins
£240.00
Dancing Ladies
watercolour and coloured chalks, signed , unframed, 13ins x 10ins , £240.00
Sea Defences
watercolour, 16ins x 22ins , £380.00, Unframed
In the Footsteps of Nash, Dymchurch
watercolour and Ink,
unframed ,11ins x 15ins, £260.00
Coastline and sea
watercolour, 16ins x 22ins £480.00
Child by a tree on a Riverbank
signed, watercolour and crayon, unframed , 10ins x 11ins
Knotted Branch
watercolour, unframed ,15ins x 9ins, £240.00
Beached Stump
watercolour, 16ins x 22ins,unframed , £480.0
View out of a Garden
watercolour, unframed ,11ins x 15ins,
£240.00
Still life of Apples
watercolour and ink, unframed , 11ins x 16ins, £240.00
Adam and Eve
watercolour and crayon, signed, unframed, 15ins x 11ins, £220.00