Bridget riley biography short

British painter (born )

For the boxer, see Bridgett Riley.

Bridget Louise RileyCH CBE (born 24 April ) is an English painter known for her op art paintings.^[1] She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.^[2]

Early life and education

Riley was born on 24 April ^[3] in Norwood, London.^[1] Her father, John Fisher Riley, originally from Yorkshire, had been an Army officer.

He was a printer by trade and owned his own business. In , he relocated the printing business, together with his family, to Lincolnshire.^[4]

At the beginning of World War II, her father, a member of the Territorial Army, was mobilised, and Riley, together with her mother and sister Sally, moved to a cottage in Cornwall.^[5] They shared the cottage with an aunt who had studied at Goldsmiths' College, London and Riley attended talks given by a range of retired teachers and non-professionals.^[6] She