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.

The D.L.R. Train

The D.L.R. Train

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

Mar-May 2011  

Photographed just as it was accelerating out of Heron Quays (Docklands Light Railway - D.L.R) Station, heading northbound, this train (splendidly painted in its familiar red and blue livery) happened to pass by at the same time as I had done, and, therefore, deserved to 'star' in this particular oil painting, brightening up an otherwise-grey day, with only weak Autumnal sunshine now and again.

The D.L.R. Train (map)