Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The competition drew 3,000 entries, short listed to 250. Fell, the only female winner, came second in the junior section and picked up a cheque for £250. In 1959, she received a 'Boise' travelling scholarship. Although she travelled extensively throughout Italy, Greece, Switzerland and France the period was not a success. As she told one enquirer: "I have an obsession about Cumberland. I have tried painting in other parts of the world, particularly Greece, but it just doesn't work". In 1967, she was awarded an Arts Council Purchase Award. In 1969 she was elected Associate Member of the Royal Academy and a full membership five years later. Exhibitions 1955 Beaux Arts Gallery 1958 Beaux Arts Gallery 1960 Beaux Arts Gallery 1961 The Derwent Centre, Cockermouth 1962 Middlesbrough Art Gallery 1962 Beaux Arts Gallery 1964 Maryport Education Settlement, Cumberland 1964 Beaux Arts Gallery 1965 Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal 1965 Queen Square Gallery, Leeds 1967 Stone Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 1969 Stone Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 1969 Also exhibited in Arts Council and Contemporary Arts Society touring exhibition 1979 New Grafton Gallery, London 1981 Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal 1981 Salford Art Gallery 2006 Castlegate Gallery, Cockermouth 2011 Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal 2014 Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth 2021 Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth Official purchases and public collections Tate Gallery, London (three paintings) Contemporary Art Society, London Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport Carlisle Art Gallery Sunderland Art Gallery Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne Swindon Art Gallery Huddersfield Art Gallery Notable paintings 1955 Aspatria wedding 1955 Miners 1958 Farm Land at Aspatria 1958 Portrait of Anna Fell 1959 Cumbrian village under snow 1961 Snowscape IV Tate Gallery collection 1964 Men working in a cornfield 1965 Maryport Tate Gallery Collection 1965 Skiddaw summer 1967 Haystacks in a field Tate Gallery collection 1970 Houses in winter 1979 Potato pick-ing-clouds 1979 Christmas References Further reading MacDougall, Sarah, （2014), Refiguring the 50s : Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman, L S Lowry, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum External links 1931 births 1979 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art Alumni of the University of Cumbria English women painters People educated at the Nelson Thomlinson School People from Aspatria Royal Academicians