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.

Canada Goose Accelerating

Canada Goose Accelerating

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

Nov-Dec 2015  

A gaggle of about fifteen Canade Geese seem to have taken to the sheltered area of 'no-man's-land' between the bridge and the Old Gaol in Abingdon. Probably they roost there at night and move elsewhere to feed during the day. There were two stragglers moving off at high speed upstream here, with the new glass atrium reflecting blue skylight in the left foreground. A coot hides in the brushwood beyond.

Canada Goose Accelerating (map)