R.F. Wilton

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R. F. Wilton is a self-taught photographic artist who has been creating images for personal self-expression for over 50 years. In the early 1970’s, he co-founded a communal fine art photographic workshop in Wallingford, CT, unofficially dubbed, Lighthouse. While cultivating his vision and skill as an artist, Mr. Wilton worked as a professional musician, as well as a custom photo lab manager and technician. He also taught photography at Creative Arts Workshop and darkroom technique at Quinnipiac University. He is now retired from a 32-year career in the enterprise business software industry.

Mr. Wilton served on the Steering Committee for the Photo Arts Collective over nearly its entire tenure, as well as on the Visual Arts Committee for the Shoreline Arts Alliance. He also served several years on the Board of Directors for Joyful Noise, Inc.

Over the decades, R. F. Wilton’s work has been widely displayed in solo, invitational and group exhibitions at numerous venues. Included among these, are; Quinnipiac University, Artspace, Artworks, Discovery Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Real Art Ways, Nikon House – Rockefeller Center, Paul Mellon Arts Center, John Slade Ely House, Gay Head Gallery, Erector Square Gallery, Center for Photography at Woodstock, International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The Mill Gallery, Five Points Gallery and Kehler Liddell Gallery, among others. His work has been published in The Advocate Newspapers, Connecticut Magazine and the Sierra Club magazine’s Centennial issue. Six images from his Abandoned House project were published in LensWork Publishing’s Seeing in Sixes 2019 book, with yet another piece appearing in their Our Magnificent Planet 2020 book. Several of Mr. Wilton’s photographs can also be seen in the CPTV documentary, The Blizzard Of ’78. His work is represented in public, corporate and private collections.

R. F. Wilton was born and raised in Connecticut and lives on his own little piece of paradise amidst the natural and aesthetic splendor of Litchfield County, CT.