A Pop up photo of the new marine painting Trafalgar Dawn, the French Perspective is attached here so you can chart the progress.

This new marine painting Trafalgar Dawn, The French Perspective is intended to become a pair with the renowned Trafalgar Dawn already in print.

http://www.frickers.co.uk/prints.html

Can you guess what else is to be done, how it will look when finished? (more…)

“I have Urgent Dispatches“  is a hit in New York ! 

A record number of “I Have Urgent Dispatches” were sold at excellent prices to benefit the Royal Naval Museum.
Thank You Gordon, for creating such a wonderful piece.. (more…)

An unusual message arrived today – “Hi Gordon. While we are working towards the new painting, is there any possibility the frame can be saved?

It is blackened and a small piece of the centre plaster piece at the top has broken off.

Is it worth it?”

Maybe. (more…)

Marine paintings tend to have long and interesting lives.

From time to time and with increasing frequency I discover earlier Gordon Frickers paintings are  finding their ways deeper into our lives and culture hence the excellent sea story of John Hawkins, a tale reproduced here with the kind permission of  John Callcut.

Our story starts with an email which arrived on the 14th of December that is, this week, or was it some where back in 1780?

Dear Mr Frickers, (more…)

Had an interesting comment come in recently regarding the much acclaimed marine painting in print as “I have urgent dispatches“, copies  available using PayPal via page

http://www.frickers.co.uk/marine-art/urgent_dispatches.html and on the web site as H.M. Schooner Pickle carrying the news of the battle of Trafalgar.

The gentleman in question wrote: (more…)

HMS Pickle, a new yarn to add to the thread of the renowned schooner Pickle of unlikely name and much disputed origins, the Pickle which heroically carried the news of the battle of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson (”Sir, we have won a great victory but we have lost Nelson“) is splendidly illustrated as a Heritage quality, signed numbered edition picture in “I have urgent dispatches“.
We are rarely able to see Gordon Frickers artwork in its final location so this is a treat! (more…)

Trafalgar Dawn (http://www.frickers.co.uk/marine-art/trafalgar_dawn.html)  has become a famous painting including being reproduced in several authoritative books and is available as a signed numbered Heritage edition from this web site.

For some years now friends have been asking me to paint and print the opposite view, from the French flagship, to make a pair, neat idea but the research proved very illusive.

Do have a look at the beginning of this historic painting and be one of the first people to to see pretty much what the French saw from their flag ship Bucentaure on that fateful Monday 21st October 1805. (more…)

A yarn of history from the research of Gordon Frickers into the story of HMS Unique and the British U class submarines.
Unique was one of the second build group of the U-class which consisted of twelve submarines.
This second group included a number of submarines that would go on to become particularly famous the foremost being HMS Upholder commanded for its entire career by Lieutenant-Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn VC, DSO & Two Bars. (more…)

The Exhibition (Exposition) of paintings by the Art Therapist, my friend Andre Lafargue at Pau has been and gone.
I’d have gone except the invitation arrived late.
The invitation was curiously addressed. (more…)