Press Cuttings, Gordon Frickers, artist, painter.

Press and media often benefit from painting by Gordon Frickers, the images and stories about my work as  artist, painter, historian.

Gordon Frickers and Sir Robin Knox-Johnson July 2018
Here below are examples, some you can open and read, many are fascinating, entertaining, informative and fun:  enjoy !
Some are major publications like The Times of London and Lloyds List International;, others include local papers and club newsletters, all are mutually beneficial.

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Yachting Monthly [May 2019]
Roaring Forties, article
ROARINGFORTIES by kind permission of the editor of Yachting Monthly

Many distinguished people and renowned companies have chosen Frickers paintings as you can discover by reading my illustrated résumée.

La Dépêche Broze wine museum 27.03.14

E U Parliament exhibition;
Artist gets the vote at Brussels
E U Parliament exhibition;
first ever marine painting exhibition.
Titanic, paintings
Titanic’s masterpiece 1

 

Titanic, lost paintings
Titanic’ masterpiece 2

 

Plymouth Herald Trafalgar print

 

Ghosts of Trafalgar, painting, Western Morning News

 

Ghosts of Trafalgar, Western Morning News text

 

Trafalgar, HMS Seahawk and Princess Anne 21.11.05

 

Pickle Night
Pickle Night dinner invitation, New York Yacht Club

Brush with history
Brush with history
Laperouse news

SB P2 (D)

 

Life on the Ocean Wave
Life on the Ocean Wave

 

La Depeche GF article du Tarn
Ladepeche (art) 19.08.14 “Frickers, des vagues et des coteaux”.

 

Pete GOSS & Gordon FRICKERS
Pete GOSS & Gordon FRICKERS
Warships International Fleet Review,  September 2011. HPC Publishing, Editor Iain Ballentyne, www.warshipsifr.com 
Warships International Fleet review Sept 2011 page 43
Warships International Fleet review Sept 2011 page 43
Warships International Fleet Review Sept 2011 page 44
Warships International Fleet Review Sept 2011 page 44

 

Warships International Fleet Review Sept 2011 page 45
Warships International Fleet Review Sept 2011 page 45

Warships International Fleet Review

This magazine’s avidly read Odin’s Eye leader delivers salty views that make government ministers and civil servants wince, while also providing food for thought in the top echelons of naval forces. Since its foundation in 1998 WARSHIPS International Fleet Review has evolved into the world’s leading and only high street naval news monthly magazine of its kind. The primary aim of WARSHIPS IFR is to provide a forum for the navies of the world.

 

From 'Frozen Fury'
From the Russia book, ‘Frozen Fury’.
Castine article United States of North American 1805 Club 21.05.15

 

Castine article United States of North American 1805 Club

 

Clipper News

 

Yachting Monthly June 2011

 

Yachting Monthly the world’s most popular yachting magazine

Fairplay – Titanic +

Arte Navale 27.03.14
Virgin Atlantic Challenge Arte Navale (Italy) 27.03.14
Press, with Gentry Eagle

 

 

 

The Times, Tuesday 18 July 1989
“Artist captures winner, instantly”, “his on the spot painting”.
The Plymouth Star, Thursday 14 September 1989
“Gordon Frickers is setting sail on Britain’s oldest merchant ship”
Yachting World, November 1989
“an artist who adds an element of journalism” (feature)
The Times, Thursday 04 January 1990
“dry humour:… whose painting Robin Knox-Johnston’s yacht, Suhaili, was displayed at Earl’s Court”
Lloyds List International, Wednesday 14 February 1990
“The fine art of capturing ship essence in oils” (feature on GF)
Inscription inside book presented by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston

 

Yachts and Yachting, Friday 15 January 1993 “a talented painter” (feature).
Queen Elizabeth 2 Daily Programme, Sunday 20 June 1993  “near the library Observe Gordon Frickers the renowned marine artist at work”.
The Mitre, Autumn 1993, “The artist behind the Picture”
The Evening Herald, Friday 21 May 1993 “the painting… set in £1,000 worth of guilt frame, was formally unveiled at Chester Guildhall on Tuesday”
The Plymouth Extra, Saturday 22 May 1993 “Masterpiece May help sea scouts”
Le Telegramme de Brest, Thursday 23 December 1993 “Maison de la Fontaine Gordon Frickers expose” “L’ exposition de peinture de M. Gordon Frickers”
The Plymouth Extra, Thursday 23 December 1993 “in the French city”
The Evening Herald, Thursday 28 April 1994 “Gordon checks out “James Bond” ship”
The Plymouth Extra, Thursday 05 May 1994 “Gordon Frickers put to sea recently to study …”
The Western Morning News, Friday 14 October 1994 “Gordon captures the Nexus”, “commissioned to record the cable ship ‘Nexus’ on canvas for BT Marine”.
The Western Morning News, Wednesday 05 July 1995 “Gordon’s no slouch as his painting is finished with minutes to spare”
The Evening Herald, Saturday 19 August 1995 “The sea is his canvas” (feature)
The Evening Herald, Friday 10 November 1995 “In Nelson’s Footsteps” “a better understanding of Spain’s involvement in the 1805 campaign”
Lloyds List International, Wednesday 11 January 1995 “picture perfect”.
The Evening Herald, Wednesday 22 May 1996 “A Plymouth artist has turned detective to paint a true picture of the Battle of Trafalgar”.
The Western Morning News, Friday 04 July 1997 “ready to paint a winning Swan”.
The Evening Herald, Saturday 22 November 1997 “Artist’s ferry good paintings”, “just returned from the far away island of Barra”.
The Chester Chronicle, Monday 10 February 1997 “Breathing new life into Chester’s old port”, “a near perfect example of a mid Victorian port”.
The Picture Business, Thursday 20 November 1997 “to commemorate the Clipper race”.
The Western Morning News, Tuesday 02 February 1999 “vision of the future” “commissioned by the STA to paint the ship”.
The Plymouth Extra, Monday 15 January 2001 “A Royal recommendation”.
Calmac press release, Tuesday 06 February 2001 “you have seen it first in a Frickers painting.

 

Fairplay, Thursday 28 August 2003 “Gordon Frickers with Batavia Yard founder Willem Voss”
With Master shipwright Willum Voss at batavia Wherf, Lelystad
With Master shipwright Willum Voss at batavia Wherf, Lelystad

Fairplay, Thursday 27 November 2003 “Frickers’s saucy Gallic seaside poster”.

 

The Western Morning News, Saturday 15 May 2004 “to rival that of Cezanne”.
The West Briton, Thursday 28 July 2005 “limited edition print is historical source”.
The Falmouth Packet, Saturday 23 July 2005 “Trafalgar theme for paintings”
The Western Morning News, Saturday 09 July 2005 “tribute to the ghosts of Trafalgar”

WMN Ghosts of Trafalgar 09.07.05
WMN Ghosts of Trafalgar 09.07.05
Lloyds List International, Friday 19 August 2005 “two very significant points in the Trafalgar story”.
Lloyd’s List, Friday August 19 2005, p6 Two centuries before satellite broadcasts, news travelled by sea …
Two new prints have been released by marine artist Gordon Frickers to mark two very significant points in the Trafalgar story.
Trafalgar Dawn‘ interprets history to depict the view from HMS Victory at five minutes past six on October 21, 1805, when officers where awoken by the cheering of the crew on deck.
I have urgent dispatches‘ … leaps to the aftermath and the tiny HMS Pickle conveying the news of the victory at Trafalgar and Nelson’s death.
Royal Geographic Society 11 September 2012 –  (on the Geography Directions Web site), IBG Journals and Geography Compass, Wiley-Blackwell’s review journal covering the entire discipline. Dr. F. Ferbrache who specialises in current immigration/emigration wrote an assessment of  the painting Emigration, Plymouth Cattewater.
Warships International Fleet Review, April 2013, part of an article on ‘New war fighting prowess in HMS Somerset’s DNA.

Somerset article 27.03.14
Somerset article 27.03.14
Arte Navale, February 2014, a quality Italian magazine, part of a 4 page article on Richard Branson’s Atlantic Challenge.
Le Cashier Loisirs, 24 April 2014 – 3 page article on the new wine museum at Broze near gaillac, Invincible Vigneron.
La Depeche, same day similar article.

La Depeche GF article du Tarn
La Depeche GF article du Tarn
Ladepeche (art) 19.08.2014 “Frickers, des vagues et des coteaux”.

 

Pete Goss Mystery on canvas
Pete Goss Mystery on canvas
 

Bow Wave Issue 696, 11 June 2015 article about the last engine less square riggers.

Castine article 21.05.15
Castine article 21.05.15

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Maiden Poster
Maiden Poster, for Tracy Edwards

 

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Gordon Frickers © updated 30.01.2022

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