I enjoy developing my art, architecture, and industrial design through language, prose, poetry, and aphorisms influenced by subjects ranging from physics and neuroscience to social concerns, history and landscape. Encountering top rate scientists and artists, actors and musicians allows me to learn, explore and enjoy and to stretch my imagination.

I translate these visually in the form of etchings in Norman Ackroyd’s London studio. Through a few simple lines drawn on copper or zinc plates using a Japanese brush they represent the essence of project specific research from the writing. I also produce figurative etchings which are also translated as Christmas cards.

My erstwhile friend John Hoyland gave me a completely new experience of colour which has resulted in making monoprints. I create these in Barbara Rae’s Edinburgh studio and her generosity allows me to feel colour while simultaneously encouraging me to think less. Some are made into woodcuts and editioned at Glasgow Print Studio.

I am an elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts, Music and Engineering and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. I have chaired many international juries, including the Berlin Art Prize and received many national and international honours and awards. I have written several books on architecture, and three on poetry.

My art is held in private and public collections - including Royal Academy of Arts, Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, Madrid, Lodz Gallery, Poland, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, UK Art Collection, and the Royal Collection Trust / Queen Elizabeth II.

I also lead one of the world’s most original, influential, and successful architectural practices, ritchie*studio.