Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931 in Norwood, London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of op art. She currently lives and works in London, Cornwall and France. Read full biography of Bridget Riley →
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that... →
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is... →
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to... →
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in... →
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other... →
Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931 in Norwood, London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of op art. She currently lives and works in London, Cornwall and France.