Paintings on the move

Two significant landscape pages have been completely updated and moved to the new ‘Landscape & portrait’ web site www.artfrickers.com, discover, enjoy. The objective is to make this site www.frickers.co.uk/art a niche site for marine painting.  

A Brighter future

Whatapps: You may like to know, on the recommendation of my son, as of yesterday I have whatsapp on my French mobile phone (+33 (0) 6 10 66 19 26).
Whatappas: Vous aimerez connaître, sur la recommandation de mon fils, comme d’hier je WhatsApp sur mon téléphone mobile français.

Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark

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Change happens

Page updated: “Winds of Change”.

"Winds of Change"
“Winds of Change”

To think things don’t change is an illusion.

The illustration shows the Liverpool ‘crack’ packet boat “Dreadnought” over hauling the steamer “Sirius”.

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Formidable

HMS Formidable, 1942 – Seafires returning, following a post on Twitter by author David J B Smith on a related subject,  page thoroughly updated. The original was commissioned by a lady whose husband was on Formidable for 4 years, the linked ‘further reading’ page is a remarkable insight. This painting provided the link that won a unique invitation to exhibit at the European Parliament May 2011, the first marine artist invited.

HMS Formidable
HMS Formidable

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Email problem

I can receive but not send email. If you have emailed me please be patient or phone (via Skype) or + 44 (0)1865 52 2435 or my French land line 0033 (0)2 99 08 93 20 I’m working on a solution for the following problem: An unknown error has occurred. Subject ‘Re: Fwd: Travel Itinerary for … Read more

New in Print

Marine art print the hauntingly beautiful “Last Departure“, Fererria-ex-Cutty-Sark departing Falmouth, her last port of call during her working life.

Tirage d’art Marine la beauté obsédante “Last Departure”, Ferreira-ex-Cutty-Sark au départ de Falmouth, son dernier port d’escale au cours de sa vie professionnelle.

Last-Departure-Fererria-ex-Cutty-Sark
Last-Departure-Fererria-ex-Cutty-Sark

That call lead directly to her eventual preservation. Today “Cutty Sark“, the most famous most elegant and fastest of the tea clippers is open to the public at Greenwich.

Newly available as one of our beautiful ‘Heritage’ quality marine prints, on selected artist’s cotton canvas for the look and feel of the real thing.

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