Bill Pike water & reflections

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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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.

AFTER THE PARALLAX ART FAIR IN CHELSEA TOWN HALL, FRIDAY 17th TO SUNDAY 19th OCTOBER; MY NEXT SHOW WILL OPEN IN THE LION GALLERY, RAMSBURY, WILTSHIRE, SATURDAY 25th OCTOBER 5:30-8PM, RUNNING UNTIL FRIDAY 7th NOVEMBER 2025

The Chestnut Tree

The Chestnut Tree

Size: 1.22m x 0.82m  Medium: Oils on Canvas  

May to June 1992  Exhibited: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 

Interesting 'cellular' reflection patterns of a 'Horse Chestnut' (Aesculus Hippocastanum) tree occur where a slow current is opposed by a light westerly wind on the River Thames at Abingdon, forming undulating 'billows' of very small amplitude on the water surface.

The Chestnut Tree (map)