After completing secondary school at King Edwards VI Aston Grammer School with a perfect 100% A* in GCSE Art, Richard studied Animal Portraiture with the London College of Art, then Fine Art with Birmingham City University. He is currently completing a BA in Animation there. He has also been working as a freelance artist since 2002 from his studio in the village of Canwell.

He is a member of the UK Bungee Club, and of MENSA, the worldwide high IQ society.

He has management experience within the retail sector, as well as having spent time working as a games tester and bug checker for Rareware and Microsoft Game Studios.

His works have featured in local newspapers and nationwide magazines.

He likes writing about himself in the third person as he thinks can get away with listing all of the things he is pretty proud of without sounding quite so self-obsessed.