This year Richard won the University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize and produced two sizeable commissions. He was shortlisted for the Eisteddfod (The National Eisteddfod of Wales is one of the great festivals of the world, attracting over 160,000 visitors every year) with two major works and won the Welsh Artist of the Year for drawing 2010. In his series entitled 'Wallpaper', Richard used wallpaper designs from the entrance hall to his childhood house as a compositional device for a series of large-scale drawings in paint.
The works represent a world within a world, an escape from the 'mundane nature' of living and provides a fairytale landscape in which one’s mind can wander and where limits are only set by the extent of one’s imagination.