Richard Britton has combined a gallery with a studio at his home in Worcestershire where he enjoys painting subjects of wide appeal in a variety of media. He is well known for his published paintings of dogs but his techniques and media are also employed to embrace portraits, seascapes and landscapes as well as life and wildlife drawings.

He has been a full time professional artist since 1970, when his early hobby became a new career. A calculated decision that he has never regretted. Prior to this, his career had been in advertising and commercial art. Although mostly self-taught, he had received a sound foundation for his work whilst attending evening classes in drawing and painting at Birmingham Art School.

St. Pauls Gallery was to stage his first London exhibition in 1973. This proved to be a major stepping stone that led to subsequent exhibitions in the USA, South Africa, Australia and Europe.

During the early years, he was commissioned in South Africa by The Department of Nature Conservation to paint endangered species. These paintings now hang in the Department's Offices in Pretoria. He has returned to South Africa many times since when racehorses were added to his range of subjects.

His publishers of prints and cards include Rosenstad's, Solomon and Whitehead, the Medici Gallery and the Paper House Group. The majority of his work, which now includes sculpture, is privately commissioned.

He is keenly aware of the need for worldwide conservation and a number of his works have been used for its promotion. He has an inborn respect and love of animals, particularly dogs, enabling him to depict them in all their individuality.