An opportunity for you to enjoy a week of artistic experience, inexpensively with friends of mine in wonderful location, the beautiful Tarn between Castelnau de Montmiral and Cordes.

For those who can’t manage this Easter, Claire assures me,  there will be MANY Art WORKSHOPS ALL YEAR ROUND.

If you might be interested contact this blog or direct to Claire at de Soissons tel: 00 33 (0)5 63 33 28 63 http://clairedesoissons.blogspot.com for a brochure or enrollment. (more…)

Finished re working the  marine painting of the sail training yacht Tectona today

This afternoon, went shopping in Toulouse,  for Pesuach.

I was surprised to see fresh snow en route and more in Toulouse. (more…)

I still find photographing marine art, well, any paintings, stressful.

I am yet to find a camera or film that always makes a good job of this even under ideal conditions and worse, some paintings are more difficult to copy than others, why?

I have just re photographed two of the largest major marine paintings in my collection, “Ice Maiden” ( see page http://www.frickers.co.uk/prints.html for a limited edition copy) and “Yamaha“, also the new painting “Racing Yachts“.

So where is the problem? (more…)

Even the Tarn weather has been a bit extreme this past week as the pics here taken on successive days demonstrate.

It has been a bit extreme for me work wise as well with less time for painting and learning French than I’d like.

The weather week opened with mild sunny days and has finished with snow and – 8 C  nights, happily my work has produced some great results. (more…)

Gibraltar, Nelson, HMS Minerve, HMS Captain is beginning to reveal how the final marine painting will look.

There have been some significant developments in this marine painting  including Gordon Frickers is able to be the first, here to show  some results of collaboration, new research into the quality of the bright yellow preferred by Nelson on his ships, more on that below… (more…)

The new marine painting of superyachts at dusk is progressing steadily as you can see here.

Still not settled is which yachts to include, open to suggestions, do you have any in mind? (more…)

Regarding Josephine De Saint Seine, artist, friend and painter based at Marseille: by way of helping a fellow artist, painter here is a bit of news…

Josephine prépare 2 expositions, en Mai à la Galerie Mourlot à Marseille, en Novembre à la galerie El Borj à Tunis….. (more…)

Back in a wet damp grey Itzac after a week of adventure in the South of Brittany, I’ll post the story and lots of pop up photos very soon.

Thus, no marine painting last week.

I’d been to the south of Brittany before but some how previously managed to miss the best bits!

My departure was delayed 24 hours by more snow which made the hill out of Itzac impassable even to 4 x 4 ’s. (more…)

Found a new house, great place for marine painting, should I rent it?

South facing with brilliant luminosity, inspirational views and quiet ( half of the property on the right in the attached pop up photo, the other building is a bar restaurant) ).

Been a bit cold here at Itzac of late, I was hoping to depart yesterday but the village hill was impassable with ice and snow.
Here is a photo of neighbouring Compagnac which I passed this morning on my way North North North.

I am thinking quite hard on where I should have a studio after Itzac?

I plan to visit S Brittany including the docks at St Nazaire to look at the shipping industry there and soon I’ll have another look at the Cote d’azur. (more…)