Adams creates idylls and then adds 'odd' people that often float above the ground and seldom stand upright. His humour and fertile imagination seem to know no bounds.

Born Hampshire in 1960, but brought up amidst the south Cotswold countryside, a landscape that has had a strong and lasting influence on his work. Received a BA Hons in Graphic Design at Leicester Polytechnic. Winner of many awards.

All Richard's paintings are produced using chalk pastel. They are then fixed and soaked in a special varnish that leaves an impervious surface.

He has exhibited regularly in London and elsewhere in Britain to great acclaim, and internationally in Sydney, Washington, Bremen and Madrid.