Frances Richards (British artist)
| Frances Richards | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Frances Clayton 1 August 1903 Burslem, England |
| Died | 14 February 1985 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | |
| Known for | |
| Spouse(s) | Ceri Richards |
Frances Richards (1903-1985) was a British painter, embroiderer and illustrator.
Frances Clayton was born in 1903 in Burslem, in the Staffordshire Potteries, the daughter of John Clayton, a pottery artist.
She attended Burslem School of Art from 1919 to 1924. She won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London, where she studied from 1924 to 1927.
At the Royal College she met the Welsh artist Ceri Richards. They married in 1929 and had two daughters, Rachel (born 1932) and Rhiannon (born 1945). Rachel married the paleontologist Colin Patterson.
Richards worked as a teacher at Camberwell School of Art and at Chelsea School of Art.
She died on 14 February 1985.
She worked as a pottery designer at the Paragon China company while a student at Burslem School of Art.
At the Royal College of Art she specialised in tempera and fresco painting, studying the writings of the early Italian renaissance painter Cennino Cennini. She continued to paint in tempera after leaving the college.
She admired the early Italian renaissance painters Giotto, Piero della Francesca and Fra Angelico; the British artists Samuel Palmer, William Blake and David Jones; and the poetry of the Psalms, the Song of Solomon, George Herbert and Arthur Rimbaud.
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