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Bridget Riley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the boxer, see Bridgett Riley. Movement in Squares, 1961. Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born April 24, 1931 in London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of op art, art that exploits the fallibility of the human eye. Riley was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College; she studied art first at Goldsmiths College and later at the Royal College of Art, where her fellow students included artists Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. She left college early to look after her ailing father, and suffered a mental breakdown shortly thereafter. After recovery, she worked a number of jobs, including several as an art teacher, and briefly in the art department of the advertising company J. Walter Thompson.[1] In the late 1950s, Riley began to produce works in a style recognizably her own, and this style was inspired by a number of...

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