A.Richard Allen studied Fine Art at BA(Hons) and Illustration at MA at Central Saint Martins College, London. As an illustrator, his clients include the New Yorker, Esquire, the Financial Times, Nokia and Greenpeace; his 'Trump Wave' illustration, published in the Sunday Telegraph, won him both the Editorial Illustration and Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year prizes at the 2017 V&A Illustration Awards. In 2012 he returned to painting, winning the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year award in 2016. His paintings are held in public and private collections internationally.