Frances Richards

Frances Richards ( Clayton; 1 August 1903 - 14 February 1985) was a British painter, embroiderer, and illustrator.

Biography Frances Clayton was born in 1903 in Burslem, in the Staffordshire Potteries, the daughter of John Clayton, a pottery artist. Both sides of the Clayton family were from long-established pottery working families. She won an annual national scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London for students who had worked in the industry.

From 1928 to 1939, Richards worked as a teacher in the textile department at the Camberwell School of Art.

During World War II, Richards and her husband moved to Alphamstone in Essex and she taught at Furzedown Training College in Tooting. Later in the war, the college was relocated to Cardiff where, by coincidence, Ceri Richards had taken the post of Head of Painting at the Cardiff School of Art.

Some Poems with Drawings, Skelton's Press / Enitharmon Press, 1983. More Poems with Drawings, Skelton's Press / Enitharmon Press, 1984.

Exhibitions Richards's work has been shown in many solo and two-person exhibitions, including:

Public collections Richards' work is in public collections, including:

Tate Victoria and Albert Museum Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea