Tony Shiels

Life & Legacy

Anthony Nicol "Doc" Shiels (25 May 1938 – 11 July 2024) was an English-born artist, magician and writer. After attending the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, and briefly studying at the Académie André Lhote in Paris, he moved to St Ives, Cornwall. He arrived in 1958 and stayed in the area until 1963 taking full part in that key period of British Modern Art. In 1961, following the resignation of Barbara Hepworth, he was made a member of the committee of the influential Penwith Society of Arts. In St Ives he ran the progressive 'Steps Gallery', where he showed artists like Brian Wall and Bob Law. He had several solo exhibitions in London mainly at the Rawinsky gallery just off Carnaby Street.