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.

Gusty Wind & Swell Waves: Docklands

Gusty Wind & Swell Waves: Docklands

Size: 1.22m x 0.81m  Medium: Oils on canvas  

Winter 2009-2010  

20 years after my first visiting this area when it was a building site, the transformation was so complete that I could not recognise anything apart from the Docklands Light Railway and its station at "Heron Quays", which was built first.

Nearby at Jessop Square swell waves flowing North mingled with wind-formed wavelets and Canary Wharf Tower reflects in this scene.

Gusty Wind & Swell Waves: Docklands (map)