A flagship and for a while forgotten painting of the renowned Olympic sailor Ben Ainslie is up for sale.  

The painting can also serve to introduce ‘The Art of Gordon Frickers’ to some leading galleries and auction houses; which one will seize the opportunity to sell this unique picture? (more…)

If this is of interest and you have time to help I’d appreciate your suggestions, thank you.

I have the honour of having been invited onto the Winsor and Newton web site. 

Also Four questions have to be answered. (more…)

If I thought yesterday was final preparations day I was wrong!

Following the last picture frame repairs (more on picture frame repairs below)  I got as far as loading inside the car yesterday while last minute tasks have multiplied like an algae bloom. (more…)

My last day at CdM today and it is going to be a busy one  before I depart for Brussels and the European Parliament Exhibition.
I’m not sure where I will be staying. (more…)

Several interesting emails today, all 3 enquiries for marine paintings (not marine prints) about Nelson and Trafalgar.
Curiously this makes 3 enquiries for that sort of painting in the past week…
Seems a bit like the old joke about waiting for buses?
Of course, followers of this blog will know, Gordon has a new marine painting on that subject, Nelson at Gibraltar,  in production (hence insert pop up pic here) at this moment and another, a new version of Trafalgar Dawn, almost ready to start. (more…)

“Jane Banks entering Bermuda”, is today a new marine print, taken from the marine painting, I have been working on this picture this afternoon with my printer at Adaptgraphics, for a descendant (more…)

3 new paintings completed this week and going to Audrey Hinks for the May exhibition of Gallerie Marin,     (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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Mysterious happenings on my desktop computer…

Wow, what a difference, I’d never go back!

Last week I treated my desktop PC to a new monitor/screen.  I changed my 17″ screen for the latest thing according to their web site, from AMU, a 22″ flat screen.

The 5 year old 17″ was ceremoniously retired and replaced with a shinny new 22″ flat screen built by AMU

But (more…)