Ceri Giraldus Richards

Ceri Richards (1903 –1971), born in Dunvant, Wales, was a painter, printmaker and maker of reliefs who trained at Swansea School of Art and the Royal College of Art (1920-27). From 1927-1937 Richards worked as a draughtsman in advertising agencies but came to prominence exhibiting at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London (1936). On taking up a teaching post at Chelsea Art College, which was offered to him by Henry Moore, he became a full-time artist. Post-war, Richards worked on public commissions at Oxford, Aldeburgh, Derby and Liverpool. His work is frequently concerned with the cycles of nature and links between visual art, poetry (he was close to both Vernon Watkins and Dylan Thomas) and music.