Bridget, along with her sister, mother and aunt went to live in Cornwall away from the dangers of the blitz. In Cornwall, Riley had great freedom as a child and spent a lot of her time playing on the cliffs and beaches near Padstow where she lived. She spent hours watching the changing light, colour and cloud formations and stored away what she saw in memory.
She has later said that these early memories have had a big impact on her visual awareness throughout her life. Nude — Bridget Riley c. Her studies were centred round life drawing and she worked mostly in black and white. She was reaching the point where she wanted to establish her own style and express herself in her own way but found herself unable to do so in an institutional framework. Girl Reading — Bridget Riley c. After leaving the Royal College in Riley returned to Lincolnshire to look after her father who had been seriously injured in a car accident.
After her father began to recover, she returned to Cornwall for three months in an attempt to recuperate. She tried to paint during this period but with very little success. Bridget Riley returned to London in and started to paint again but made little progress.
In the first half of the year she was an in-patient at the Middlesex Hospital — she later moved to a hostel — and took a job selling glass at an antique shop in Marylebone Lane. It was a bleak and difficult time for Riley.
In Bridget Riley saw an exhibition in London that had a significant impact and helped shape her creative thinking and sense of direction — an exhibition of American Abstract Expressionist painters at the Tate Gallery, the first exhibition of its kind in the country.
Riley moved into teaching and from she taught art to girls aged at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Harrow, introducing them to the sequences of shape, line and groups of colour, hoping to release their truly creative impulses and to discourage blind copying of the real world. Bridget started to paint again during this period in a more exploratory style — the main influences being Matisse and Bonnard and she started to visit exhibitions again and renew contact with the art world.
Thubron tried to show how modern painting was evolving in America and other European countries than the UK. He spoke of organic form, colour and form progressions and spatial investigation. Riley was fascinated and, after applying for a teaching post at Loughborough College of Art, she took leave from J. Pink landscape — Bridget Riley — Oil on Canvas In the summer of Bridget Riley travelled, painted and visited galleries in Italy with de Sausmarez and was enchanted by the black and white Romanesque buildings of Pisa and the churches of Ravenna.
She also refers to seeing and admiring the work of the Italian Futurist painters Boccioni and Balla. She was encouraged by her teacher, Maurice de Sausmarez d , to study the art of Georges-Pierre Seurat.
On her return, she took a part-time teaching post Hornsey College of Art , under the direction of de Sausmarez. The following year Riley moved to Croydon School of Art She also continued to work part time at J. Success was not to prove to be instant for Ms. Riley, however. She had several art teaching jobs, and her artistic skills were utilised by an advertising agency.
Star of Op Art. Bridget Riley experimented with different art styles including semi-impressionistic, before creating work that was to make her name from the early s onwards. She focused on creating black and white patterns that were both geometric and illusory. Study for Measure for Measure 40 , David Zwirner. Study for Measure for Measure Dark 2 , Untitled Fragment 2 , Hang-Up Pictures. Arcadia 4 , Lougher Contemporary. Measure for Measure , Print for Chicago 8 , Get the latest news on the events, trends, and people that shape the global art market with our daily newsletter.
Bridget Riley British, born Melding clean lines, color arrangements, and geometric precision she creates optically compelling visual effects, as seen in her work Cataract 3
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