Specialist in carving and replacement of figurative and decorative stonework. Richard Noviss trained as a stonemason at Weymouth College and worked in the Cathedral workshops at Wells and Winchester before becoming self-employed in 1988.

He is based at his workshop near Oxford, but undertakes commissions widely in the southern half of England.

Works undertaken: re-carving and repairs to historic statuary; portraits in stone; repairs to stonework of historic buildings using lime based techniques; individually designed and carved fireplaces, memorials and headstones.