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Richard was born in 1952 in Bradford, Yorkshire; the industrial heart of northern England. He attended both the Sheffield College of Art and the Kingston-upon-Hull College of Art, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1976. After earning his post-graduate teaching degree from Sussex University, he left England for warmer climates, ending up in the Southwest United States with his wife Sharon, where he pursued painting full-time.
[Art Renewal Centre - Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches]