Colour is the proper means for what I want to do because it is prone to inflections and inductions existing only through relationship…the colours are organised on the canvas so that the eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift.
Bridget Riley, 1984
The present work was a gouache study made towards Serpentine Print, 1999, a print commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery, London, on the occasion of the exhibition Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 1960s and 70s.