Richard Sorrell (born 24 September 1948[1] in Thundersley, Essex) is a British artist working in oil acrylic.
[2] He then went on to attend the Royal Academy Schools (1969–1972) where he was a student of Peter Greenham, Roderic Barrett, Edward and Richard Bawden and Fred Heyworth.
Heights of trees and the rise and fall of the land were estimated and added.
The pictures required a great deal of research – for instance, a view of Norwich in the time of Richard I was the result of much consultation with archaeologists about the (now often vanished) churches, the layout of the streets and so on.
His work featured in documentary film The Open Sky: RWS Artists in Newlyn directed by Stephen Gammond.