Bridget Riley
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Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter well-known for Op art.
She lives and works in London, Cornwall, and the Valiantse in France.
Early life and education
Riley was born in Norwood, London, on April 24th, 1931. John Fisher Riley, a Yorkshire man, had been an Army officer for the past. He was a printer by trade and owned his own business. He and his family moved the printing company to Lincolnshire in 1938.
Her father, a Territorial Army soldier, was mobilized, and Riley, along with her mother and sister Sally, moved to a cottage in Cornwall at the start of World War II. The cottage, which is not far from the sea near Padstow, was shared with an aunt who was a former student at Goldsmith' College, London. Non-qualified or retired teachers' lectures supplemented primary education. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College (1946–1958) and later at the Royal College of Art (1952–55).
She cared for her father, who had been involved in a serious car accident between 1956 and 1958, who had been involved in a serious car accident. She had a breakdown as a result of her father's health's deterioration. She began working in a glassware store after this. She then joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising company as an illustrator, where she worked part-time until 1962. Jackson Pollock's exhibition in the winter of 1958 had an effect on her.
Her early career was both figurative and semi-impressionist. Her work at the advertising company showed her that she had introduced a pointillist style of painting between 1958 and 1959. Around 1960, she began to create her signature Op Art style, which consisted of black and white geometric designs that explore sight dynamism, produce a disorienting effect on the eye, and produce movement and color. She and her mentor Maurice de Sausmarez visited Italy in the summer of 1960, and the two friends visited the Venice Biennale for its large exhibit of Futurist works.
Riley began teaching children at the Convent of the Sacred Heart of Harrow, 1957 to 1958 (now known as Sacred Heart Language College). She began a basic design course at the Convent of the Sacred Heart. She taught Loughborough School of Art (1959), Hornsey College of Art, and Croydon College of Art (1962–64).
In 1961, she and her partner Peter Sedgley visited the Valiant plateau in France's South of France and purchased a derelict farm that was later converted into a studio. Victor Musgrave of Gallery One held her first solo exhibition in London in 1962.
Riley formed the artists' group SPACE in 1968, with Sedgley and journalist Peter Townsend, with the intention of providing artists with large and affordable studio space.