water n.
a colourless, odourless liquid
Yet water, particularly a water surface, has so many wonderful effects which are often taken for granted, or not even noticed, by those whose very existence depends on it in everyday life...
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Bill Pike lives and works in Berkshire, England.
The images on this site have been produced by scanning 35mm transparencies using a slide scanner. The colours and quality of the images may not therefore be representative of the original paintings.
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| Born | Cambridge, England |
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| 1953-1955 | Croxton Park Junior School, Cambridgeshire. |
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| Early 1955 | Houldsworth Valley Primary School, Newmarket, Suffolk. |
| 1955-1960 | Stetchworth Heath Primary School, Cambridgeshire. |
| 1960-1963 | Bottisham Village College, Cambridgeshire. |
| 1963-1965 | Stockbridge County Secondary (Now Test Valley Comprehensive) School, Hampshire. 5 GCE '0' Levels (English Lang., Maths., Geography, Woodwork, Metalwork.) Passed. |
| 1965-1966 | Meteorological Office Training School, Sanmore, Middlesex (Scientific Civil Service). ASO Grade 13-week Course for Meteorological Observers. First out of 16 students in 'Recording Instruments' final examination. |
| 1967-1970 | Metropolitan Correspondence College. St Albans, Hertfordshire. |
| Jan 1970 | GCE 'A' Level Geography Passed in London. |
| 1971-1972 | Art Classes at North Berkshire College for Further Education, Abingdon (now Oxon.) |
| 1972-1973 | Fine Art Foundation Year Course, Regent Circus College, Swindon. Wiltshire. |
| Jul 1973 | GCE 'A' Level Art Passed. Awarded 'Tunley Prize for Painting'. |
| 1973-1976 | Maidstone College of Art, Oakwood Park, Maidstone, Kent. Educative College Visits to Amsterdam (Easter 1975) and Paris (Easter 1976). |
| Jul 1976 | Awarded BA (Upper Second Class Honours) Majoring in Painting. Subsdiary: Weaving. Thesis 'The Science & Mythology of Rainbows & Haloes' receives General Studies Department Commendation. |
| Sep 1977 | Awarded British Council/ Italian Government 'Short-term Research Bursary' to Milano, Italy. Studying Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Atlantico' in Milan's Ambrosian Library and Museum of Science & Technology. Visit to Leonardo's birthplace in Vinci. Many 'source' photographs of water taken in Switzerland, N.Italy, & S.France. |
| 1980-1982 | Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the University of British Columbia, Canada. Special Travel Allowance granted to visit Art Museums & Galleries in Canada & USA during Summer 1980...'Coast to Coast' 8-week trip accomplishes this. |
| May 1982 | Graduated with MFA (Master of Fine Arts Degree) of UBC Vancouver. Including Thesis 'The Use of Photographs by Canadian Painters During the Past Twelve Years'. |
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