Richard Colson is a senior lecturer in Digital Art at Thames Valley University. He holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College and an MA in Electronic Arts from Middlesex University.

Richard has been working with computer systems for over twenty years and has exhibited his work at the Design Museum in London, the New York Digital Salon, and the Deluxe Arts Gallery and Watermans Arts Centre in London. Richard has had one-man shows at Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd. and at the Solomon Gallery, Dublin. His work is in collections at Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the House of Commons, the House of Lords and Pearson PLC.

His students have gone on to achieve at the highest level winning prizes at the D&AD (Design and Art Direction) student awards and contributing to the Takeaway Festival at the Science Museum, London.