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…)

5.5 hrs painting yesterday not even stopping to eat left me exhausted.

This month I have been marine painting as much as possible then a bit more
The light has been excellent, here are 2 evening pictures for you to enjoy.
Soon I’ll be ready to try photographing the paintings. (more…)

I am here more than usual, writing in my role as occasional journalist for Sea Breezes and others, as a Marine Artist of 30 + years experience and for my web site blog.

I have here before your very eyes on show for the very first time a new marine painting almost complete.

This marine painting has been  researched for several years and I have written an account of how “Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes” came to be lost and its very considerable consequences including the recent controversial dives made on her probable wreck by Odyssey Marine Exploration , Inc. (NasdaqCM: OMEX) a pioneer in the field of deep ocean exploration. (more…)

Trafalgar! A painting in progress shown here on Trafalgar day, 21st of October, the battle of Trafalgar called by the French “Le catastrophe de Trafalgar”.

The battle of Trafalgar, an event which changed world history and Napoleon Bonaparte said did not happen also saw the heroic death of the British hero Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson.

Appropriately here is the battle of Trafalgar at approximately 06.20 as viewed from the French flagship; a painting in progress. (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…)

The Flying Scotsman and IK Brunel’s famous and historic Royal Albert Bridge now in its hand made special order frame.

Following some positive feed back via this blog,  Gordon Frickers have given this painting several new “coats of thought” and eventually reacted.

Comments are always of interest, did you know, you can leave yours at the tail of any blog entry?

If you look at earlier blog entries for The Flying Scotsman you can see if you can spot the changes? (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…)

August closes, marine painting has resumed in earnest at last following the difficulties caused by having to leave Itzac suddenly due to faulty electrics.

Being a bit out of practice it seems there is more paint on me than on the canvases, a situation I’m hoping to reverse.

Work has recommenced on the new version of the renowned “Trafalgar dawn” (available quickly and securely using PayPal as a signed numbered edition from page

http://www.frickers.co.uk/prints.html), an update written below.

Also on the easel in the past few days, HM Submarine Unique and “Emigration, Plymouth Cattewater and the Samuel Plimsol” ~ here is a brief progress report. (more…)

Trafalgar and Nelson
Trafalgar Dawn 2 has finally started to appear on the canvas!!!

A picture showing the progress will appear on this blog soon.
This new painting will make a pair to go with the now renowned “Trafalgar
dawn“, a view from among the crew onboard HMS Victory at 06.05, Monday the
21st of October 1805 and based on eye witness reports and research. (more…)