04/06/2021
After the war, Riley enrolled in Goldsmiths College and at the Royal College of Art, where she developed her style and was influenced predominately by French post-impressionist painter Georges Seurat, who she attempted to copy in 1959.
Her copy of Seurat's Bridge at Courbevoie, which hangs in the Courtauld, was pivotal in Riley's understanding of colour, tone and repetition
