BIOGRAPHY
William was born in 1933 the eldest son Henry Selby a Yorkshire coal miner. He has painted in his spare time throughout a varied career that has included Coal Mining, National Service, Engineering and Insurance. He now paints professionally in oils, watercolour, acrylic and mixed media. His best known subjects include still life, musicians and dramatic and highly personal depictions of his native Yorkshire landscape.
EXHIBITS INCLUDE:
Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters
The Royal Water Colour Society
The Royal Society of British Artists
The New English Art Club – Recent Prize Winner
ELECTED:
Member of Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1982
Associate Member of the Royal Water Colour Society in 1989, Fellow Elect 1992
Associate Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1989, Full Member 1992
Member of New English Art Club in 1994
AWARDS:
Christine Leger Award at Royal Institute of Oil Painters 1989 and 1991
Chris Beetles Award at Royal Watercolour Society Open in1986
Cornellisen Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1990
Prize Winner at Manchester Academy Open
Le Clare Fowle Medal, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1994
Granada Award, Manchester Academy, 1995
N.S. Macfarlane Charitable Trust Award at The Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
Llewellyn Alexander Award, NEAC 1995
