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.

THREE OF MY ABINGDON PAINTINGS (377, 385, 386) WILL BE ON DISPLAY IN THE DOLPHIN GALLERY (WANTAGE) THROUGHOUT SEPTEMBER

Wind on the Water: Welney

Wind on the Water: Welney

Size: 0.92m x 0.61m  Medium: Oils on canvas  

Late Jun-7th Jul 2024  

Here a fresh gust of wind is creating new ripples and wavelets which occupy the top of this image. Where the wind has lifted from the water surface a more-pronounced mature set of billows already set in motion are weakening and losing their identity in the middle distance, where a flat patch of water allows bankside trees and a house to reflect close to a mirror-image of themselves.

Wind on the Water: Welney (map)