Richard’s personal automotive art projects have ranged from paint, sculpture and tapestries to a pair of coffee table cartoon books lampooning Porsche and Ferrari enthusiasts. More recently he has been focusing his energies on bronze and cast resin sculptures. The bronze provides a classic flair, while Richard’s "finish fetish" for show car quality paint work on the painted portions of some pieces, adds a contemporary quality and the illusion of three dimensional photo realism.

These sculptures captures the dramatic and dynamic fluid motion of the car at speed, smoothing and simplifying the basic lines of the car, much as the eye or the photographic process does in real life. His work seems almost fishlike in its ability to twist and curl through a space as fluid as the sea.

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