“Charcoal to me is magical, mysterious and mystical. How is it possible that the feather-weight dust of a burnt piece of wood can have delicacy and boldness, sensuousness and ruggedness, and can transform a plain piece of paper into the presence of a living being?  

It’s range of expression reaches back to the most ancient times.  It has allowed every artist throughout millennia a means of personal expression able to adapt to every whim of style and subject and still maintain throughout, an eternal quality - from the first cave dwellers to the Renaissance to Impressionism and gratefully to my hand as well.”

- Sir Roland Richardson