Bob Brennan today presented me with a piece of music entitled “Gordon’s Home Coming“.

There is a long association between painters and musicians, how many can you name? A clue to two, Picasso Portraits by, Pictures at an exhibition by?

Previously Bob wrote pieces inspired by the vibrant “Famous and Picturesque Wine Villages“ http://frickers.co.uk/wine/index.html and the French Landscapes series visit http://frickers.co.uk/colour/index.html. (more…)

A working Breakfast , that was a coffee and Eccles cake, at Morrison’s store, Plymstock started the day in earnest. (more…)

Now is the time to say goodbye to the European Parliament Expo or is it? (more…)

The catalogue for the Exhibition at the European Parliament “Life on the Ocean Wave” has grown into a book.

This is a summary of the relevant parts of info sent by Nielson who are responsible for ISBN allocations. Bar Code – this is desirable, I doubt we have time to obtain a bar code. (more…)

An exhibition invitation from  Diane de Bournazel la fée des grands chemins, Claire de Soissons la fée aux insectes, Eva Kristeva la fée au miroir.
La Galerie loin-de-l’oeil a le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage de l’exposition. (more…)

I’m working on a large marine painting (30″ x 40″ = 762x1016mm), marine ish that is, of the Bay of Antibes at sunset viewed from Cap Antibes near the lighthouse.

I’ve been struggling to find the lighting effect in the sky and land that I have in my vision.

To my surprise a visiting friend who used to help run the renowned Painting School of Montmiral said “Stop!” (more…)

Using an SLR Canon D 60. If you use this info other from this site and blog, please credit generously.

Doing so enhances your credibility and ours , win win.

This also means, coming soon, pictures and histories of a veritable collection of new paintings, book mark this blog for a feast! (more…)

“I thought the pictures on your web site look great but now I’ve seen the amazing originals, why don’t they look more like the originals?”

How many times have many of us artists heard that?

Our need here is for as natural, faithful reproduction of original paintings, including marine paintings as is possible. (more…)

We have had some very atmospheric sunrises and sunsets here at Castelnau de Montmiral this month, a few art  photographs included for your pleasure.

We have also had more showers than usual plus following a cooler than normal summer 3 days ago I dropped my shorts and climbed back into jeans, a clear sign of an early autumn!

Meanwhile I have a rush job on thanks to the world leading marine picture library, Pickthal’s Picture Library who want a cover picture from me of a sailing ship and steam ship (which 3 days ago I did not have) and of course the biography mentined yesterday,  for possible inclusion in the very prestigious American “Marine Quarterly” so here follows some nice photos of the new marine painting “Winds of Change”   following yesterday’s biography of Gordon Frickers, enjoy!

Now we have “Winds of change“, 12 hours thinking and inspired painting changing an existing painting,  into I hope you agree,  a very exciting picture? (more…)

Went last year and was surprised and facinated.

Today, busy with paperwork application to accept the invitation to exhibit at the European Parliament; … and have to find some where to rent soon. Could do with a few days at Monaco though, following up on last year’s efforts might get me an exhibition at Monaco / Monte Carlo too. (more…)