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, "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.

Mallard Wakes

Mallard Wakes

Size: 1.10m x 0.77m  Medium: Oils on canvas  

January to February 2007  

An early-morning scene of a pair of Mallard ducks swimming quite rapidly against the flow (right to left of picture) where the A339/A34 Road Bridge is reflected into the Kennet & Avon Canal, Newbury.

Mallard Wakes (map)