Richenda trained in fine art and contemporary dance at Brighton University and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

In 2021 Richenda was elected an associate member of the Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers (A.R.E) based at Bankside Gallery, Hopton Street, London next to Tate Modern. As a member Richenda’s prints are regularly exhibited throughout the year at Bankside Gallery.

Her preferred mediums centre around relief and intaglio printmaking developed at Morley College, London, for nearly twenty years under Richard Michell and Frank Connolly esteemed master printers to David Hockney and Birgit Skiöld.

Richenda particularly enjoys linocut with the fineries of line and freedom of pattern making. 

The prints are mostly made at her home studio in Esher. The more expansive, complex prints are printed at Thameside Studios, Woolwich or Simon Lawson-drawing on large professional presses.

In 2020 Richenda won the prestigious Stuart Southall Printmaking Prize at the Royal Society of British Artists at The Mall Galleries, London with her linocut ‘Behind the Human Ocean’. And in 2012 represented Surrey in the Olympics 

Her prints are inspired by fluid detailed line drawings; progressing subconscious idea’s not knowing where they may lead. This process is the foundation of her practice.

‘Glass Town’ is the most recent project centred around a couple who’s daily lives are thrown into question when they awaken to a paused world. Crystal’s, glass chess pieces and mountains lead them on a journey to reflect on their lives. The body of work includes drawings, linocuts and etchings as well as a collaboration with animator Hannah Brewerton and musician Amit Rai Sharma to produce a short, animated film of ‘Glass Town’ recently selected for the International Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery. 

Over the past six years many large-scale prints have been created. Working larger and more ambitiously allows Richenda more time to pause and reflect on the image. In the most recent prints etching and linocut are brought together in one print which has been both technically and physically challenging to master, a technique first introduced by Simon Lawson.

Richenda’s prints can be found in the Ashmolean Museum, V & A Museum and British Library. Richenda has exhibited extensively in the UK including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Society of British Artists at the Mall Galleries and Henry Sotherans Ltd, Piccadilly, London.