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.

A Kingfisher at Lower Shiplake III

Size: 0.92m x 0.62m Medium: Oils on canvas

Mar-May 2009

This third version of the Kingfisher I was stalking along the riverbank concentrates more on the wind-formed billow-waves on the water surface and also the foreground foliage is more heavily 'worked-up' thatn in the comparable earlier versions in nos. 189 and 227.

A Kingfisher at Lower Shiplake III (map)

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