Richard Kimathi studied graphics in the Creative Art Centre in Nairobi.  He lives and works in his studio on Malaa, southeast of Nairobi.

Kimathi is always exploring and experimenting. He has a unique expression, camouflaging an empathetic portrayal of the circumstances of the common Kenyan in caricature-like reductionism: the suffering, privately worn and stoically borne, as if simply the price of life. Invisible to the sleepy eye, this sensitivity permeates the entire body of his work.