There are two well held views.

Reading through the information from and looking forward to Bridget Riley’s new exhibition arriving at the Hayward Gallery later this month I spot both.

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/five-things-know-about-bridget-riley

Riley spent her childhood in Cornwall, and she credits the Cornish landscape – its ‘bosky woods and secretive valleys’, its ‘changing seas and skies’ – with first teaching her how to look

Riley states: ‘I believed – and in fact still believe – that looking carefully at paintings is the best training you can have as a young painter.’

There is a long and eminent list of Artist who agree from Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney.

Leonardo da Vinci

https://www.biography.com/artist/leonardo-da-vinci

Hockney

https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-39-spring-2017/hockneys-world-pictures

The importance of drawing.

The other thing all three Artists did was draw from the life model.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/26/leonardo-life-in-drawing-review-royal-collection-queens-gallery

David Hockney. Tap image for a direct link.

Bridget Riley. Tap images for a direct link.

Her process and thoughts in her words.

A review of work next to works that inspire her .

An Umm article from Will Self which no doubt will not appear for this expo. You can’t please everyone all the time.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/read-between-the-lines-are-bridget-rileyrsquos-paintings-really-fine-art-1040278.html