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.

Flowing Billows, Abingdon

Size: 0.76m x 0.51m Medium: Oils on Canvas

May to July 2004 Exhibited: P, 28

This was a bright and breezy day of a northerly outbreak of air, with gusty conditions just after a trough had passed. Sets of 'billows' (wind-formed waves) are produced by the wind which blows intermittently at right angles to the river flow. In places at the top of the picture, there is some 'interference' of the billow wave-trains.

Flowing Billows, Abingdon (map)

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