Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born April 24, 1931 in Norwood, London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of op art. Bridget Riley was born in London, England and spent her childhood in Cornwall and Lincolnshire. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She studied art first at Goldsmiths College (1949-1952), and later at the Royal College of Art (1952-1955), where her fellow students included artists Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. Her early work was figurative with a semi- impressionist style. Around 1960 she began to develop her signature Op Art style consisting of black and white geometric patterns that explore the dynamism of sight and produce a disorienting effect on the eye.