After his death it was discovered that he had also secretly produced hundreds of sketches and finished drawings of men and women engaged in a wide range of uninhibited sexual activity.
[3] In 1914 he won a scholarship to Slade School of Fine Art in Bloomsbury, Central London where he was taught by renowned artist and teacher Henry Tonks.
[4] Poulton was commissioned to produce artwork for many magazines and books including, for Nonesuch Press, new versions of A Plurality of Worlds by Fontenelle[5] and Isaac Walton's The Compleat Angler.
[reference required] During his lifetime he produced many erotic drawings, usually on commission from various patrons, notably playboy yachtsman Beecher Moore, who sold a large collection of Poulton's work in the early 1990s.
[reference required] His erotica is very much of its time; the clothing is very clearly from the 1940s and 50s and the pictures are characterised by an exuberance and joie de vivre on the part of the participants which arguably sets him apart from many other artists in the genre.