Richard fled to New York's East Village over 20 years ago. In that time, he's graduated from School of Visual Arts, continued his pursuit of academic studies at the Art Students League of New York, and won a grant which was put towards travels throughout Southeast Asia and India. His clients have included NY Cares, the YMCA, CITYarts and Disney ("Celebrating the Heroes of Our City", LES NYC, a post 9-11 tribute mural), and also PriceWaterhouseCoopers' "Helping Hands" corporate volunteer group (on the restoration of Warren Easton High School in"Katrina"-aftermath New Orleans).