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.

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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.

Voyage

Size: 1.29m x 1.07m Status: Private Collection, Marlborough, England Medium: Oils on canvas

June to July 1981 in Vancouver, Canada Exhibited: 5, 6, 7, 8

This peaceful 'sunday afternoon scene' was viewed looking northwards from the Cleveland Dam, which holds back about 16.5 billion gallons of Vancouver's water supply in Capilano Lake. Tall conifers send their long reflections down from Grouse Mountain onto the serene reservoir, as a swimming gull heads off and away, followed by a rising south-westerly wind rippling the water surface.

Voyage (map)

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