Michael Sheppard was born in Yorkshire and was a student at Wakefield College of Art, Leeds College of Art and Nottingham University. He works at the coastal edge of west Penwith where the ever-changing light visually dissolves forms by its intensity. He has exhibited at Penwith Society Gallery in St Ives, Lemon Street Gallery in Truro, and also in London and Nottingham. Sheppard's works are held in public and private collections in the UK, USA, Germany and Japan.