Society of
Architectural
Illustrators

Richard has been both President and Chairman of the SAI.   He became a full time illustrator and artist in 2015. This was after 22 years as an Urban Design Director of Building Design Partnership (BDP) in London working on large scale masterplans.

He works in a wide variety of media dependent on the needs of the project and tailors his style to suit the client’s requirements. His main skills are in large-scale aerial perspectives, urban street views and fast mood sketches in pen and ink with added colour. His perspectives are usually coloured-in on the computer in Photoshop. However, for AHMM he produced a series of watercolour and pen drawings using an experimental layering technique. He now works mostly in acrylic ink and oil pastel which gives a strong jewel-like finish to his images.

As well as being an illustrator Richard is a prolific artist in the medium of oil pastels on architectural subjects and is now President of the Pastel Society UK. He has exhibited in the Mall Galleries at the Pastel Society since 2016 and has had one man shows at Abbott and Holder and the RAC in Pall Mall.