Working sailing ship paintings introduced here via the ‘Gordon Frickers’ paintings and taffrail yarns via ‘Further Reading’ links.
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An invaluable connection : My basic seamanship and respect for salt waters was learnt as an adolescent with the very last men who traded without engines.
Those iron Men represented the very last of their kind.
They were in a very real sense an honour to be with as the sun set gloriously on the long history of British merchant sail,
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“Waterwitch” off Gribben Head, Cornwall
Waterwitch was the last British square rigger to ‘trade foreign’, available as a signed, numbered PRINT on canvas from Marine Art Prints use our Purchase Page or PayPal
The original long since sold to a gentleman in Plymouth.
I have come to realise, to have this connection, unique among today’s marine artists, with those tough, modestly courageous, hard working and very skilled men is a qualification, an honour.
They were and still are is a profound influence of my marine paintings.
Years later I realised I’d learned upon the very same waters Drake, Cook and Nelson learned their small boat handling, the Swale, the Thames, the Medway estuaries.
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“Shipping wine, Carracks arriving in the Gironde“.
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I learnt much, seamanship, many attitudes, which have become for me, intuitive, part of my soul, from some of the last Britons to work cargo under sail.
We shall not see their or mine like again.
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Stolen : I’m sad to say this mini masterpiece was taken to Holland by Maryse Sportouch, and never paid for. Piracy? Oih vay, at least I retain the copyright…
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Baghlah – the traditional deep-sea dhow
Sold, commissioned on behalf if His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said.
The Image appear with my permission as copyright holder as the front cover of a best selling book “The Corsair“.
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A very early example of my emerging talent, likely to be much more valuable some day soon…
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Maria Asumpta entering Plymouth
‘Maria Asumpta‘ was ship I spent very many hours aboard.
Painting sold to a private collector via a Chester gallery.
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“Rhoda Mary” and “Katie Cluett”
Commissioned by a gentleman of Falmouth, Cornwall.
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“Ferriera” ex “Cutty Sark”, “Last Departure”
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Tectona & Moyana off the Eddystone
Sold to a sea captain, a professor of Marine Technology at Plymouth University.
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“Tectona, dawn off Bolt Head”
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“As Gordon’s marine art here demonstrates, over the years Gordon Frickers has deepened his affinity for merchant sailing ships, painted many and sailed upon a few including ‘Maria Asumpta’“:
Nick Bonham, director, Bonhams of Knightsbridge, London.
At the time the ‘Maria Asumpta’ was the oldest sailing 19th century square rigger anywhere, and still capable of carrying cargo, Maria Asumpta.
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10 May 2007, updated 04.01.2020
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