Unless collections are noted all pieces are available for purchase.
For some time now I have been building a collection of photographs
through purchase and barter.This collection is a great source of inspiration,
reference and historical documentation for me and my family.
Please contact me if you wish to trade prints for prints.

sheltonw@earthlink.net

12 Grandview Park
Stonington, Ct. 06378

tel. 860.514.0215

You can pay me via credit card through my PayPal account.
With this link www.paypal.com

1963 born Pampa, Texas
1969-1973 Elvis impersonator
1975 meet lifelong friend and collaborator Steve Cooley
1982 attend college briefly Texas Tech Lubbock,Texas;meet mentors Jackie Decker and Courtenay Mathey who encourage artistic endeavor
1984-1986 work at Studtman Photo in Austin shooting real estate salesmen portraits
1987 receive scholarship at The San Antonio Art Institute, study drawing with Carl Embrey
1987-1992 show photographs and paintings with art director Julie Eskoff, Austin,Texas
1991 collaborative painting exhibit with Steve Cooley at Dobie Theatre, Austin, Texas
1992 paintings shown at Firestone Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993 move to Europe; make collage, watercolors, photographs. Create Mezi-Hradi Books to hand bind and sell blank sketchbooks.
1993 in Prague Richard Giles introduces me to pinhole photography
1993-1994 teach Czech kids art with multimedia artist Amy Dolin
1994 mixed media exhibit at The Globe Bookstore, Prague
1993-1997 photographs and paintings are used by Harcourt Brace as book jacket illustration
1995 move to San Diego to execute painting for 13 jackets for the books of Italo Calvino
1995 collaborate on artists book,"Gargantuan My Desire" with playwright Julie Myatt
1997 move to New York City
1998 meet mentor/collector/master printer Chuck Kelton
1998 photographs exhibited by Gary Hustwit at Incommunicado Press, NYC
1998 marries Kassia Bratina
1999 photographs shown at Monique Goldstrom Gallery NYC
2000 paintings shown at Virgil Skye Gallery San Francisco, California
2001 birth of son Giles Willowbee
2001 collaborate on Loudmouth Collective book "Coming Up for Air" with multi-media artist Craig Foltz
2003 paintings exhibited by Gary Hustwit Plexifilm SOHO offices, NYC
2004 moves to Stonington,Connecticut
2005 Debevoise collection photographs exhibited by Howard Park and Sarah Seip, Stonington Connecticut

Publications include Texas Architect, Austin American Statesman, Austin
Chronicle, Stonington Times, Mystic River Press, Harcourt Brace;
Harvest Books, Houghton Mifflin; Mariner Books, Knopf, Vintage Books,
Winter and Winter Music (Munich), Sony Music, BMI Music, Galaxia
Gutenberg (Barcelona), Loudmouth Collective, Perseus Books, DaCapo Books,
Svenska Forlaget Books (Stockholm), W.W.Norton, Pantheon Books,
The Paris Review. Upcoming publications; Acuarella Records(Madrid) and Rizzoli Books.