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Ceri Giraldus Richards

Ceri Giraldus Richards (1903 - 1971) was active/lived in Wales, England.  Ceri Richards is known for Surrealist painting, printmaking, bas relief sculpture, stain glass design.

Ceri Giraldus Richards, CBE (6 June 1903 – 9 November 1971) was a British painter, print-maker and maker of reliefs.

He was born in 1903 in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea, the son of Thomas Coslett Richards and Sarah Richards (born Jones). He and his younger brother and sister, Owen and Esther, were brought up in a highly cultured, working-class environment. His mother came from a family of craftsmen; his father, an employee of a tinplate foundry in Gowerton, was active in the local church, wrote poetry in Welsh and English and for many years conducted the Dunvant Excelsior Male Voice Choir. All three children were taught to play the piano, and became familiar with the works of Bach and Handel in the cycle of Christian celebration. In later years music would be an important stimulus to Richards's painting - as would his youthful sensitivity to the landscapes of Gower and the cycles of nature.

At Gowerton Intermediate School he drew constantly and won local competiti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4894 characters.]  Artist bio

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