2009 News Archive - Gordon Frickers art and website

The following are previous 2009 news items about Gordon Frickers art and website.

PQ 13, Artic Convoy to Mourmansk

Added a painting of PQ 13 one of the hardest fought convoy battles of World War 2, an eye witness scene.
Posted: 5 August 2009

Agapenor, a "blue flue"

Added Agapenor, lost painting found after 12 years!
Posted: 5 August 2009

Contacting Gordon Frickers Marketing

A very unusual CV/Resumee - Gordon Frickers has examples of his marine art in National collections in England and France. Recent clients included super yacht builders, owners, the Ministry of Defence and the government of Oman. "Many thanks for producing a truly beautiful painting" ~ Devonport Royal Dockyard. "Our efforts with the painting were highly successful" Sir Robin Knox-Johnston.
Posted: 5 August 2009

Nizou IV off Taormina in Sicily, Vesuvius in the background

Added "Nizou IV off Mount Etna", reported stolen from the Hotel Bellevue, Sicily, to the marine art archive. A commissioned painting with a topical story.
Posted: 5 August 2009

Vipassana

Added another 2006 sunrise painting titled Vipassana. A Buddhist landscape in France?
Posted: 4 August 2009

Plage de nudite

Added a painting with nudists "plien air" and painted "en direct", the French needs little effort to translate !
Posted: 4 August 2009

Foret de Sivens, the Blasted Oak

Title and text updated.
Posted: 4 August 2009

Guest Speaker

Added a new page on Gordon Frickers as a guest speaker. He has an international perspective with a style that is engaging, amusing, immensely knowledgeable and often surprising. He is interactive, approachable, the talks usually illustrated.
Posted: 4 August 2009

The loss of a new Handley Page Halifax

Added a painting of a Halifax heavy bomber and a Me 110 Messerschmitt night fighter. A deadly combination, from a previously unpublished eye witness account.
Posted: 3 August 2009

The Port of Heraklion

Added a painting of a Boeing 727 landing, a captain's inspiration for an artist.
Posted: 3 August 2009

Masada, a World Heritage Site, Symbol of Freedom

A stirring new account of events at Masada, Israel, has been added to the further reading for this page.
Posted: 3 August 2009

Landscapes in Israel

An exciting chance to make your mark in Israel, read the new text.
Posted: 3 August 2009

Ben Ainslie at the Sydney Olympic Games

Attracting the attention of the London Olympic Organising Committee 2012, the painting "Ben Aynslie at the Sydney Olympic Games" has been re-discovered and re-worked to a very high standard.
Posted: 2 August 2009

Marine Print Gallery

Added a new print, marine art, of H.M.S. Formidable, aircraft carrier, a prestige, signed, numbered edition. Formidable was one of WW2's most active aircraft carriers.
Posted: 2 August 2009

Archive of Experimental, earlier and other Gordon Frickers paintings

Some paintings have been moved to our newly formed archive - find your Title, No reasonable offer refused: Part of our reorganisation and clarification of our message.
Posted: 27 June 2009

"The Mauretania, Cunard Express Liner"

Mauretania: improved image quality and details added to this picture of Cunard Line's most famous 4 funnel steamer.
Posted: 26 June 2009

St Michael

An original interpretation of the No 1 tourist destination in France after Paris. The surprising, often amazing North coast of Brittany with minor forays into Normandy is a rich subject for the pallette of Gordon Frickers.
Posted: 4 May 2009

Beauty of the Seas

Added a painting of a stunning superyacht with echo's of the days of Sinbad the Sailor. We have another very similar so this is your unique chance to own a marine painting originally intended for a royal household!
Posted: 3 May 2009

Exploratory paintings - 2006 to the present

Why did La Depeche, the local press, report that these paintings are sufficiently different and important that they will do for the Tarn what Cezanne did for Provence?
Posted: 3 May 2009

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