Sheila Tilmouth has been a practising artist for more than 30 years and has exhibited extensively throughout the UK. She is a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy summer show and is a gallery artist at the Alresford Gallery, Hampshire.

She studied art for seven years attending Hornsey College of Art and the Byam Shaw Schools. She travelled to Finland for a year on a British Council scholarship and studied at the Finnish Academy, Helsinki, visiting Lapland and Leningrad.

She is a member of the Lime Press printmaking studios and Linden Mill Arts in Hebden Bridge.

Sheila Tilmouth has taught art as a visiting lecturer at Rochdale, St. Helens and St Catherines College Liverpool. She has taken workshops with artist, community and adult groups in painting and printmaking.