A friend of mine emailed today:
“It really was not my fault (she pleaded innocently). 
A gazelle come out of

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All well here. Apart from I / we missed the Nouveaux Gaillac eve in Gaillac yesterday, drat.
This is quite a big social

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agressive cows?

Wild deer abound in the forests around Castelnau de Montmiral, here in the Tarn. Timid, rarely seen, I have seen several lately one in particular surprised (more…)

This year at Verdun the French put on a very impressive commemoration, tasteful, meaningful.

If anyone wants to know what makes modern Europe tick, (more…)

Newsletter 6 from The Art of Gordon Frickers, November 2008

This newsletter goes to people who have  (more…)

This may effect marine painters, they are putting up new signs at the White House, please don’t walk on the lake.

Meantime I am working on (more…)

How did this special event come about?

University of Plymouth Marine Department, has a long and salty history,  Tectona being a part.
Remarkably, two paintings inspired by a former captain and Uni lecturer helped save and return Tectona to Plymouth.

“Tectona“, was (more…)

Pickle night tonight!!! An excuse to party! Never mind naught old Guy Fawkes…

The best Pickle night party we ever had included firing 2 real naval cannons complete with gun carriages, from our back garden!

Our thin excuse was (more…)

Stock control. “Vagrant off the Needles“, see http://www.frickers.co.uk/marine-art/vagrant_needles.html, only 3 left!

A beautiful limited signed, numbered edition of an elegant  schooner the famous Nathaniel Hershoff built at New York U.S.A.

“Vagrant off the Needles” was the first of my paintings to go into print thanks to Helen Swaby of De Montfort Fine Art http://www.demontfortfineart.co.uk/
Following a recent enquiry here,

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Castelnau de Montmiral is one of the last places I’d expect evil spirits. It is a beautiful, tranquil ancient hill top “Bastide” village. One of Les Plus beaux villages de France.

If there are any evil spirits (more…)