Richard Cole has produced profiles and political cartoons for The Times (1973-87), daily TV caricatures for the Daily Express (1978-80), caricatures and illustrations for the book pages of the Daily Telegraph (from 1988) and editorial and political cartoons, caricatures and general illustrations for the Sunday Times (1973-95).
Since 1995 he has also drawn for the Sunday Telegraph and the Guardian. Other work has included illustrations for BBC TV's Tonight, and Panorama programmes and Channel 4 News. In addition he has been CBS News Contract Artist since 1983, covering parliamentary debates, criminal trials. He has recently returned from Baghdad, Iraq, where he was the sole court artist commissioned by the world's media to cover the Courts Martial of the American soldiers at Abu Ghraib Prison.
At first influenced by the German Expressionists and David Low, in the 1980s he began a series of woodcuts, the discipline of this technique having a dramatic effect on his work. Cole also works in watercolour and oils.
Richard Cole has had an ongoing love affair with the Isère and Savoie regions of France which he first visited as an art student in 1962. Since then he has established a studio in the village of Saint Geoire en Valdaine. He has published a 'Hidden France Collection' of highly acclaimed signed limited edition prints and original woodcuts. Cole has recently published a new series of prints in the Old Quarter of Lyon which he painted in the Summer of 2003. He covered the Nazi Klaus Barbie's trial in Lyon for CBS News, and The Observer Newspaper.
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