Barbara Richards

Barbara Richards was born in Panama. She has lived all over the eastern US from Iowa to Mississippi and currently lives in Charlotte, NC. She has been drawing her entire life, from messing with her father's architectural drawings, through Hunter College and then studying at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Animals have always been an important part of her life, from the farm animals in South Carolina, to the Welsh terriers she showed all over the country, to her beloved Arab horse...See more

Barbara Richards was born in Panama. She has lived all over the eastern US from Iowa to Mississippi and currently lives in Charlotte, NC. She has been drawing her entire life, from messing with her father's architectural drawings, through Hunter College and then studying at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Animals have always been an important part of her life, from the farm animals in South Carolina, to the Welsh terriers she showed all over the country, to her beloved Arab horse Sheer Nonsense. Her menagerie over the years has included a lizard, a mouse, a hedgehog, a ferret, miniature horses, several dogs, and even a tiny bird that yells "shut up."With such an eclectic taste in pets, it is no surprise how much Barbara has enjoyed working on the Henry series and creating all the wonderful animals Henry meets on his travels. Barbara worked with Belk, Inc. a Charlotte department store chain producing all their fashion-related art and design products for 28 years, retiring as a Senior Designer. Since then, she's been freelancing, working on everything from designing corporate logos to creating art for T-shirts to illustrating children's books. See less