[7] During World War II, Richards and her husband moved to Alphamstone in Essex and she taught at Furzedown Training College in Tooting.
[6][3] Richards was a keen reader of poetry, particularly the work of William Blake, and her exhibition catelogues often contained poems or verse.
In 1980, the Campbell & Franks Gallery in London held a large retrospective exhibition with paintings, drawings, engravings, embroideries and early tempera works from over fifty years of her artistic career.
[9] Richards 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.
Mel Gooding writes:[3]: 18 ...for over fifty years her own quiet and formalised figurative art was unaffected by her daily closeness to the extravagant and sometimes violent drama of [Ceri] Richards's painting.Richards's work has been shown in many solo and two-person exhibitions, including: Richards' work is in public collections, including: