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Tracks a shift in Op artist Bridget Riley's career from use of the vertical stripe to increasingly complex diagonal compositions, seen in studies on paper from 1984 to 1995.

Marking the first major survey of Bridget Riley's use of the curve motif, this volume explores how the artist has often returned to this theme over a fifty-year time span. Coinciding with the artist's exhibition at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea (summer 2015), this publication features studies and paintings from throughout Riley's career.

Eight never-before-seen gouache studies are at the centre of this volume, illustrating Bridget Riley's dynamic approach to colour. This volume documents a group of gouache studies by Bridget Riley from 1969 to 1972 that reflects a major reconfiguration of Riley's style. The shapes formed in these gouaches are arranged from a limited selection of colours - namely violet, green and pink - to explore the visual relationship between 'contrast and harmony'. Accompanying full colour illustrations, a conversation between the artist and Robert Kudielka from 1972 posits the works within the context of Bridget Riley's oeuvre.

Among the many pictorial devices Bridget Riley has deployed over