Received by e mail today – Your profile is now published in the Featured Artists section of Winsor & Newton – great news! Why? Read on!

Your page is available at http://www.winsornewton.com/community/featured-artists/gordon-frickers/?lang=gb (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…)

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…)

Landscape paintings, landscape art, open ended experimenting in the Tarn

French landscape paintings have preoccupied me today, I have continued sorting out my French landscape art today, a process started-stopped-started since last New Year…

This landscape art was conceived not for sale but as open ended research, an artist’s response to discovering and exploring his powerful colour experience as caused by eyes that literally don’t have a normal colour experience. (more…)

What is your experience of social networking?

I had an interesting email from Dr Michael Baker  (+44 20 7193 3216  www.michael-baker.com) Sustainability Consultant – Assessment and Research.

If you have or want experience with social net working for artists, the following may be helpful, kindly leave it in the comments, we may be able to help each other. (more…)

A stunningly clear morning, the mountains shown in the photo are about 100 miles away,  then gales here.

A beautiful full moon rise here in an almost clear calm sky  heralds the start of the Easter vacations in France.

The most immediate effect of this will be a marked decline in Internet speed as thousands of  kids go online and more Gendarmerie on the roads with portable radar, neither issue helping those of us with work to do!

In general the Internet in France is patchy as is mobile phone reception, neither being as fast and reliable as in England. (more…)

How wonderful is email?

A few days ago and there is a joke in here some where,  I received an email dated February 23, now why did that arrive so late?

The subject, an enquiry, was “H.M. Schooner “Pickle“, carrying the news of the Battle of Trafalgar ~PurchasePrint : yes ~ Message : On prestige cotton canvass~ Message entered from : H.M. Schooner “Pickle“, carrying the news of the Battle of Trafalgar.

You can see and read more of the extra ordinary research and story of  Pickle and this wonderful and renowned picture on web site page http://www.frickers.co.uk/marine-art/urgent_dispatches.html. (more…)