Wendy Bell
Wed, Jul 8th 2026 at 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm
Water through an Art Lens
Water is the most familiar substance on Earth. We drink it. We bathe in it. We weather it. We need it to survive — and yet, beyond that primal instinct, we rarely stop to truly think about it.
For the past six years, as a doctoral researcher at the University of Dundee, I have been doing exactly that — looking at water carefully. And what emerges, when you look closely enough, is something remarkable: a pattern begins to form. I ask why this is important particularly in the age of AI.
President Colin Brown welcomed Paul Nestor visiting from the Rotary Club of San Diego, then discussed the forthcoming Children’s Fun Day at Craigton Park on Thursday 16 July. He presented Frank Quinault with the highest award of a Paul Harris Badge with the blue stone in recognition of Frank’s huge commitment to the recent KT Tunstall Community Concert which raised £14,500 for charity. The speaker was Club member Wendy Bell on her Ph.D subject ‘Water through an Art Lens’. She explained that for the past six years, as a doctoral researcher at the University of Dundee, she has been looking at water carefully. When you look closely enough a remarkable pattern begins to form which is particularly important in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Water is the most familiar substance on earth; it flows unchanged through biological materials without changing them; we use it, bathe in it, weather it, we need it to survive, and yet we rarely stop to think about it. She showed beautiful photos of scenery, water patterns, ice, rose buds, branches of trees, river tributaries. Our sensory lives respond to atmosphere and change -can AI do the same? Wendy ended with a quote from Maurice Sendak: ‘I want to fall in love with the world, to feel what I can while I am here'. Ann Baird gave the vote of thanks.
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