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WELCOME - This is a very comprehensive website of over 600 pages with many benefits. This NAVIGATION PAGE is intended to help you find your way around www.frickers.co.uk. Welcome onboard, this is The Art of Gordon Frickers. We regard the ultimate compliment as "I'll buy it". However this Frickers site is about much more than having you commission our paintings and prints. There is much here to share that is rare, sometimes unique; paintings and information, this page will introduce you to the rich variety of this web site and we hope enable you to benefit from this resource. So many people have contributed to this special, rich resource of paintings, prints, books and information, we try to credit everyone who would like a credit, many are listed below, and have often put people in touch enabling remarkable things to happen. Scan the remarkable page Useful facts + excellent stories about "Waterwitch" off Gribben Head, Cornwall or Useful facts + excellent stories about "Tectona, dawn off Bolt Head" for examples. You will more fully benefit from this rich resource by spending some moments on this navigation - site map page to discover how to cruise here, on this special web site. About paintingsHere you can order excellent unusual gifts for special occasions, commemorate achievements, illustrate stories, present your ships or boats in a uniquely impressive way; our imagination yours and mine, is the only limit! Photography is wondrous however even with the advent of 'digital darkrooms' photography remains graphic, somewhat impersonal. One only has to see how fine paintings bring models to life in a museum, affect offices or public exhibitions to appreciate the difference. Paintings are precious in many ways and few gifts increase in value to the recipient in the way a quality paintings will. Our first class paintings are prestigious. You are ordering from one of the very few artists invited to exhibit at the European Parliament (May 2011), a remarkable endorsement, our paintings are of truly enduring worth for special occasions, promotions, anniversaries, birthdays, and many have already become historical documents. "Paintings of iconic worth" - Dick Durham, editor of Yachting Monthly, June 2011 The unique and distinctive paintings of the versatile Gordon Frickers mark (almost) a life time of passionate involvement and study by an artist of distinction. Site contentMarine PaintingGallery One provides an introduction to 32+ years of marine painting, and much archived marine history resultant from Gordon Frickers often ground breaking research and 51+ years of experience. Marine Commissions or Marine Prints, you are in safe hands with Gordon Frickers. Frickers set out to be not the best, rather the best painter he could be. Along the way for many reasons he has become recognised as one of the finest marine painters, the first and only marine painter invited by the chairman of the Transport and Tourism Committee to exhibit at the European Parliament, not a bad endorsement maybe the most distinctive among many others. A painter first and foremost, the versatile Frickers has a reputation as one of the most reliable, professional, experienced, diverse marine painters alive today producing work with accuracy, depth, luminosity and immediacy; among other qualities. Frickers often highly original compositions are loaded with emotions, vitality, mysteries and yet are often historical documents too. Frickers sometimes surprising combinations of colours challenge and excite many people in much the same way and for similar reasons as did the unexpected colour combinations of his illustrious predecessors in particular Monet and Degas who had similar colour vision. As with his first hero of painting, J M W Turner, Frickers choice of subject sometimes enable us to reflect on the great issues of our times. Brian Simpson MEP wrote "Frickers paintings are marks of our achievement as a people. Frickers is an ambassador today and for future generations for our marine world". We wish you to leave here richer for the experience.
Painting of the month or changing paintings How to orderYou have here the opportunity to commission original art and prints. The Marine Print Gallery enables you to order any of our prints easily and securely using Paypal Special orders simply go to "Orders and Payment" on the blue menu bar above and follow the "payment" link from the top of that page, again using the renowned Paypal. Something for everyone, for every budget, you can buy or commission here works of art ranging from sketches from under fifty pounds to unique master works, paintings from £500 to £35,000. If you already own an example of The Art of Gordon Frickers it is worth noting for insurance purposes the average value of The Art of Gordon Frickers has increased by 250% in the last 15 years. How is that for investments? If in doubt use contact us, found above right!
Gordon Frickers paintings continue to be chosen by famous companies and talented and distinguished people. This is your chance to order now. About This Site - Benefits
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Gallery One: Marine ArtGallery One is described above.
Gallery Two: Famous Wine Villages ArtProbably Gallery Two has the widest appeal! Here you can explore some of the world famous and picturesque French wine villages, producers of some of the world's finest wines and many a great bargain too, legendary names, St Emilion, Sauternes, St Estephe, Pauillac their districts, wines and people.
Gallery Three: Mysterious LandscapesThese paintings are full of visual and painterly surprises. Some have distinctly odd qualities reminiscent of our dreams and influenced by Turner, Most were painted as experiments and have been so successful quite a few have been stolen! Do we need compliments like that?
Gallery Four: Visions in ColourThese pages show some of the paintings, cartoons and sketches from projects other than the principal categories described above. The mystery of paintingsFew things make a home or offices look more stylish than very good paintings. They give rooms intuitive uplift, class, without people even looking at the paintings. They convey authority and integrity to the rooms in a way which no other furnishings can, challenging the senses and imagination of all who see them. Fine paintings will arouse conversations, give pleasure and value every time you see them and some times when you just know they are there. Being rare and individual, fine pictures become treasured heirlooms. Fine art has consistently proven to be one of the very best investments. Many satisfied clients! You will hardly ever see Frickers Art at Auction! For YOUFREE: you can down load our brochure and the book "Life on the Ocean Waves" as well as much other information for personal use to enjoy and share with your friends. We ask only that you respect our copyright and if using this for educational purposes credit us and create a link to this web site. You can contribute appropriate additions to our "further reading" thus become a part of this story, and your name can be credited. On this site you have an introduction to a huge investment in time and materials, an introduction to 31+ years of determined painting, art photography and study in pursuit in the tradition of the most renowned of the grand masters of the past. Gordon Frickers aim is simply to be the best painter he can be, trying to pick up from where his heroes of painting left off, trying to leave the world a slightly better place than he found it. In the futureYou may have noticed this is a live site and blog, worth keeping an eye on. We are adding new paintings, publishing more text extending our research, 'further reading' and archive information and products probably including a book within the next year. There is also some talk of a film, maybe. We hope you have found this meaningful to you, if not please contact us and let us know why, in any event enjoy.
Photo GF Summer 2011
Paintings of GF, courtesy J. Lane & P. Bloch Enjoy Sincerely,
The time, enthusiasm, professionalism and above all knowledge of many good people has contributed to enrich this unique website. This would not be possible without their patience and encouragement. We would like to name you all here, which is not possible so we have taken to crediting on appropriate pages when ever possible. This column is respectfully and affectionately dedicated to you all, our clients who have made this possible by saying "I'll buy it" many of who are now also friends, without who's support none of this would be possible, and in particular, Alan Frickers, Mrs W.A Frickers, Mr. Gerard de Rose, F. Pratt, Captain J. Simkins, Mr P. Goodwin, Lt Cmdr M. Cheshire, Captain R. Motte, Mr. N. Varley, Mr. C. Ling, Dr. Michael Baker, Mrs S. White, Mr and Mrs S. Best, Ms P E Frickers, Mr A. Tooze, Juliet Mwaniki, Mme Jill Lane, M. et Mme J. Linquette, Lt Cmdr K. Packer, Mme S. Boudina, Mme H. Ancelet, Mr C. Boddington, Ruth Naylor, World Ship Society members, Staff of the National Maritime Museum Greenwich, Mr D. Folley, Mrs J. Folley, Mr G. Sibley, staff at the UK Hydrographic Office and at Plymouth Naval library, Mme F. Boitel, Mr. B. Brennan, Ellen Rosen, the Societie Laperouse d'Albi and many others including the journalists, editors and presenters who have been supportive generous with their time and editorial space, thank you all. Gordon Frickers 2001 © |
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