My next show, "WAVES and WAKES", is scheduled to run from Sat 12th April until Sat 10th May at the Katharine House Gallery, in The Parade, MARLBOROUGH, Wiltshire, SN8 1NE. For further information, ring The Gallery, which is open Tue-Sat, on 01672-514040.

Rainbow in the Fountain

Size: 1.83m x 0.92m  Status: Private Collection, London, England  Medium: Oils on canvas  

June to July 1978 in Woodlands St. Mary, England  Exhibited: 2, 4 

At carnival time (usually the first week in September) a traditional visiting fair produces some brightly coloured reflections in the circular pond on Aldbourne Village Green. for HM the Queen's 1977 Silver Jubilee celebrations a fountain was temporarily erected in the pond.

While waiting for the carnival procession, I noticed a rainbow which sometimes appeared in the cascade of falling droplets when intermittent sunshine played on the spray. Painted fairground vehicle reflections in the pond changed colour where viewed through the rainbow's brilliant hues of refracted sunlight. Even the strongest red reflections were modified to orange through the bow's light.