Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is an internationally renowned abstract painter, whose images explore the way the human eye and brain perceive pattern, colour, movement, shape and texture.
We visited her solo exhibition at the Hayward Gallery on London’s South Bank in early January 2020, and I couldn’t resist having a bit of fun with the interplay of colour and pattern between the paintings and the gallery visitors.
I love the way her colours and patterns tessellate and squirm in front of your disbelieving eyes.
Hayward Gallery cafe: do you think they sat there deliberately?
There is some direct relevance to Riley’s work here - she has been interested for years in how the juxtaposition of particular colours affects one’s perception of colour itself, and how monochrome pattern can generate the impression of colour.
Given more time I would like to have tried the effect of different clothing colours and patterns superimposed over the same painting.
