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Richard Bolton settled in New Zealand in 2004 with his New Zealand born wife, after working as a professional watercolour artist in the United Kingdom. As well as being inspired by the local scenes around Cambridge shire, where he has worked and lived, he has traveled all over the world to paint including Australia, China, Taiwan, Israel, Europe and New Zealand. Many people are familiar with his work through book publications and magazine articles on painting in watercolour. His books have been published in the U.K., U.S.A and China, with translations into other languages. He has exhibited widely throughout the UK and has won awards at the Royal Institute of Watercolourists in London. He is now living and working from his studio in Geraldine. Richard paints a wide variety of subjects. He is well known in the East of England for his treatment of lazy waterways and Fenland scenes. He is equally at home painting dry, arid scenes as in the Gobi Desert or the Holy Land, to the vast plateaus of the Himalayas. His books have covered landscape painting, drawing, and the pursuit of detail and texture, such as you would find on old weather-worn posts or the rust on the side of an old tractor. Since being in New Zealand Richard has won the following Art Awards; 2005 Ashburton Society of Arts – Loan Society Award 2004 Ashburton Society of Arts – Aoraki Polytechnic Award 2004 South Canterbury Arts Society – Merit Award