Richard Newell:  

Richard L. Newell was born in 1942 of a genealogically diverse heritage and reared in rural New England, USA. He moved to Florida in 1958 where he attended Palm Beach High School, Palm Beach Community College and later received a BS Degree in Agriculture from the University of Florida. Newell, the father of four girls and five boys, simultaneously enjoyed two diversified careers and several minor occupations. He also developed his talents as a poet, writer and educator. Under his artistic pseudonym, Richleigh!, Newell is especially recognized for his whimsical and surrealistic “Forged Rock” (a forgery of a rock) Garden Sculptures, three dimensional Wall Sculptures, and his intricately carved and breathtakingly delicate Sculptured Eggshells. He retired in 2000 and spent three years doing volunteer work as a naturalistic ecologist for a Biological Reserve in the cloud forest of Costa Rica. Newell now resides in the Arkansas Ozarks near the small, North Central town of Yellville where he is involved in creatively helping others find what they have been looking for all their lives, achieve their goals and find their fulfillment in life, work and spiritual understanding. He also believes in helping others overcome emotional and physical challenges through adopting fuller, rich...Expand for more