Ceri Giraldus Richards CBE, painter and print-maker, was born near Swansea, Wales in 1903. In 1921 he enrolled in the Swansea School of Art under William Grant Murray. Enrolled Royal Academy of Art in 1924. Married fellow artist Frances Clayton in 1929. From 1959 onwards made prints at the Curwen Press. Awarded CBE in 1960 and was a prize winner at the Venice Biennale in 1962.
Collections of his work held at Tate Britain, The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery (where his first one-man exhibition was held in 1930) Nation Gallery of Cardiff and Pallant House Gallery in Chichester among others.