In this group of works, Bridget Riley reflects on the emotional depth and chromatic subtlety she encountered in the paintings of Mark Rothko. Rather than imitating Rothko’s hazy colour fields, Riley translates her experience of his work into her own visual language of precisely calibrated bands and planes of colour. Bridget Riley (born 1931, London) is one of the most influential painters of the post-war period and a leading figure in Op art. Rising to prominence in the early 1960s, she developed rigorous abstract compositions that use repeated lines, shapes and colours to create sensations of movement, light and space. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Riley has continually rethought the possibilities of abstract painting, influencing generations of artists and reshaping how viewers understand the act of looking itself.