Maker and arts coordinator based in the North East of England and London, with a dual lineage in both industry and the arts. My work has encompassed the fields of furniture design and making, photography, and leader of many workshops involving hands-on approaches to making. The training I’ve received has been multi-faceted, with an early tutelage from the renowned C20th art teacher Harry Thubron, through to cabinet making at The London College of Furniture, a master's in design from Teesside University, making furniture and sculpture with Ron Arad and Danny Lane, leading on to extensive work in many areas and with numerous commissions.

In my role as Companion of John Ruskin's Guild of St George I further the debate around the work of Ruskin, William Morris, and Philip Webb in the context of C21st design practice, most recently in the form of collaborative projects for 2025 in tandem with the Ruskin and Morris groups in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan, and with generous support from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. 

I am a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Art, Craft and Design in Education, and as part of the Arts and Minds Campaign we are lobbying to bring the arts back into the curriculum. For 2025, and in continuation of the innovative programmes of workshops that have been held at The Motor House in North Yorkshire for the last forty years, I am co-curating a series of workshops which focus on engaging with hands-on making processes and working with the model of Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione.

On the front of this site:

1. Harry Thubron (1915 – 1985), an overview of the influential teacher and co-creator of the Basic Design programme with Richard Hamilton, et al.

2. The Richmond family and their work as painters, from Thomas Richmond (1771 – 1837) through to William Blake Richmond (1842 – 1921)

3. The Bell family and their work in industry, including that of Lowthian Bell’s father-in-law Hugh Lee Pattinson (1796 – 1858)

See also: The Motor House

Richard Wentworth on Bob Richmond –

“We should pay more attention to the accidents of learning and the delights of cross pollination, the smudges and overlays which are a commonplace in the arts and humanities, the same shimmer and blurring which are often the catalysts for permission and discovery in the sciences. Sharing experience with enough humility is a trigger for fertilising the most tentative thoughts, the release agent for creative confidence.”