Illustrations for a poem by Dylan Thomas

Ceri Richards was a British painter and printmaker whose abstractions emerged from close observation of landscape, particularly the Welsh coastline and interior architecture. Working across oil, watercolor, and etching, he developed a vocabulary of interlocking geometric forms and luminous color fields that distilled natural phenomena into essentialized compositions. Richards moved fluidly between figuration and abstraction throughout his career, his work gaining particular prominence in postwar Britain. His prints and paintings are characterized by a deliberate tension between linear structure and atmospheric depth.

Dunvant, UK