Ella Shepard

Ella Shepard (b. 1993 Harrogate, United Kingdom) studied Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University (2016) and has recently received an MA in Painting from Arts University Bournemouth (2023). Shepard currently lives and works in her studio in the UK, exhibiting regularly across the United Kingdom and Europe. In 2017 Shepard worked alongside BiC pens and created pieces in collaboration with Parkinson's UK at Store Street Gallery with Re:Imagined. In 2018 she won the Young Bath Art Prize and her painting was chosen for the cover of Young Romances’ album, Don’t Look.

Shepard has been commissioned by and exhibited with Modern Art Oxford, The Arts Council and residencies have taken her to Bauhaus University, Germany, Cove Park, Scotland, Leighton Park, Reading and Eggardon, Dorset. Her work has been written about in Art and Framing today Magazine, Wot is art? Magazine, House and Garden Magazine: Up and coming artists, The Collection Museum Lincoln Gallery: Connectivity, Paint Britain and her work features in the book Creative Sanity: Where Art Meets Presence representing painters from around the world.

Shepard's paintings have been purchased for private collections in the UK and internationally and her works can be viewed as a permanent part of Oxford’s Public Art Collection. Awards include Jorge Aguilar-Agon National Artist Award, Bath Art Prize, Lena Fritsch’s Selection Award, Zuleika Gallery and The Ashmolean Museum and The Eaton Fund.