Riley, Bridget (1931- ) - 1961 Kiss
Acrylic on linen; 122 x 122 cm.
She studied in London at Goldsmiths College (1949–52) and the Royal College of Art (1952–5). From 1958 to 1959 she worked in an advertising agency while painting in a pointillist technique. She was encouraged in this by her teacher, the painter Maurice de Sausmarez (d 1970), who directed her to study the art of Seurat. Her interest lay in the energy and color vibrations radiated by objects, seen in Pink Landscape (1960) which depicts the violent color vibrations given off by an Italian landscape in intense heat. She later conveyed a similar effect of heat on landscape, from shale on a French mountain, in Static 3 (1966) composed of 625 tiny ovals. . She won a first prize at the Venice Biennale in 1968. Other notable works include “Drift No. 2” (1966) and “Nineteen Greys” (1968).
Riley, Bridget (1931- ) - 1961 Kiss
Acrylic on linen; 122 x 122 cm.
She studied in London at Goldsmiths College (1949–52) and the Royal College of Art (1952–5). From 1958 to 1959 she worked in an advertising agency while painting in a pointillist technique. She was encouraged in this by her teacher, the painter Maurice de Sausmarez (d 1970), who directed her to study the art of Seurat. Her interest lay in the energy and color vibrations radiated by objects, seen in Pink Landscape (1960) which depicts the violent color vibrations given off by an Italian landscape in intense heat. She later conveyed a similar effect of heat on landscape, from shale on a French mountain, in Static 3 (1966) composed of 625 tiny ovals. . She won a first prize at the Venice Biennale in 1968. Other notable works include “Drift No. 2” (1966) and “Nineteen Greys” (1968).