Richard Willson studied graphic design at Epsom College of Art. In 1968, he was taken on by The Observer as a caricaturist and cartoonist, and in 1971 transferred to The Times as a freelance, contributing caricatures for the profiles in its Business Diary. Willson acted as an occasional stand-in for Peter Brookes and for Gerald Scarfe on The Sunday Times. Willson also worked for a range of publications, including The Spectator, Washington Post, New Statesman, New Scientist, Tablet, Business Traveller, Euromoney, Investor's Chronicle, Punch, Financial Weekly, Accountancy Age, Computing, Lloyds Log, Ecologist, New Internationalist, United Nations and Racing Post. In addition he produced a considerable amount of advertising work for clients including J Walter Thompson and Saatchi & Saatchi.
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