Wishing you all the seasonal best, health and happiness in a better 2012

Je tu souhaite les joueuses fêtes, bon santé et un meilleur 2012 

from Gordon

PS: If you have had spam sent using my email please accept my sincere (more…)

Special offer prints, until the end of October, Trafalgar, ancestors, Titanic and more here.
15% off any print order from existing customers received before the end of this month or for more than one copy.
You can order your copy paying bank to bank or using Paypal on our payment page http://www.frickers.co.uk/blog/making-a-payment/ (more…)

What should an artist wear at this prestigious European Parliament Expo?

Your suggestions please…

“Life on the ocean wave” – a unique art event in the heart of Europe.

Invitation – Would you and your guests would like an invitation to preview “Life on the ocean wave”? (more…)

We spoke in detail of Alert’s history and of the Junon and Alert, as possible paintings prepared with the author and much respected naval historian Peter Goodwin.

This to be part of a project, a series of paintings about His Majesties armed cutter Alert.

To include Alert’s capture of the American commerce raider, the brig  USS Lexington which operated quite successfully out of Morlais, Brittany – until she met the cutter Alert. (more…)

I am still exchanging emails  re the European Parliament Marine Art Exhibition at Brussels.

This is to wish you a sincere Merry Christmas and to copy my latest newsletter for those unable to receive the News Letter. 

Some of you will not have received my email Christmas card and new Christmas News letter, copy below.

Reasons for this include bounced and blocked emails (more on that below).

The Internet can be bizarre, I’d had a reply from Robin Knox-Johnston, star of my “Roaring Forties” painting, then got an, INVALID RECIPIENT message re the address! (more…)

My flight was confirmed today. Apparently I’m going to be a starlet on TV a first for a marine artist?
This re HM Schooner Pickle, the gallant little ship that carried the news of the battle of  Trafalgar and the death of Nelson,  interview to be  with Tom Cunliffe… (more…)

The Flying Scotsman with Pulman coaches, Saltash village and Saltash passage, The Royal Albert Bridge (that is the Tamar bridge built by I.K. Brunel). 

I am supposed to be a marine painter so what on earth the above about?

Idunoh; maybe writing this and with your suggestions we can figure it out? (more…)

Newsletter, Sea Fever and super yachts, The Marine Art of Gordon Frickers No. 8 © august 2009

We hope you find the following interesting, engaging, interactive, and will forward this to friends. (more…)

All the basics are now in place, the fine details and tidying up remain, in particular the Flying Scotsman herself, the Pullman coaches and the Royal Albert Bridge.

This new steam train painting is very different to the previous “train on a bridge” I have painted!   (more…)