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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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.

My next show is the 50 year retrospective (1975-2025) at the Katharine House Gallery, in The Parade, MARLBOROUGH, Wiltshire, SN8 1NE, 01672-514040. Open Maundy Thursday 2nd April 2026, 5-7pm (opening evening) then daily, 10am-5pm, Easter Saturday 4th April, and thereafter from Wednesday 8th until Saturday 11th April (takedown day). Open Tuesday 7th by appointment only.

Flowing Billows, Abingdon

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)