Riley Around
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About This Work
In *Riley Around*, Bridget crafts a lively meditation on movement and return, using circular rhythms to guide the viewer’s eye through the composition. Layered marks and calibrated shifts in tone create a sense of momentum—as if forms are caught mid-turn—while moments of restraint allow the surface to breathe. The work balances spontaneity with control: confident gestures are tempered by subtle transitions that deepen spatial ambiguity and invite sustained looking. Suggesting both play and persistence, *Riley Around* evokes the contemporary experience of orbiting familiar points—people, places, or thoughts—while continually arriving somewhere new.
About the Artist
Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her singular op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. Riley was born at Norwood, London, the daughter of a businessman. Her childhood was spent in Cornwall and Lincolnshire....
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