Working sailing ship paintings introduced here via the ‘Gordon Frickers’ paintings and taffrail yarns via ‘Further Reading’ links.
My connection, my time spent as an adolescent with the very last men who traded without engines, men who represented the long history of British merchant sail has been a profound influence of my marine paintings.
New, progress with a painting of racing schooners, a commission going to the USA.
“New and Old, yours for £1250.
My basic seamanship and respect for salt waters was learnt around the Thames and Medway Estuaries when an adolescent.
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“Waterwitch” off Gribben Head, Cornwall
Available as a signed, numbered print on canvas from Marine Art Prints.
The original long since sold
I learnt much, seamanship, attitudes, from some of the last Britons to work cargo under sail.
Years later I realised I’d learned upon the very same waters Drake, Cook and Nelson learned their small boat handling.
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“Shipping wine, Carracks arriving in the Gironde” yours for £1250.
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.
We shall not see their like again.
If you appreciate and are looking for the best in marine painting you have found it here.
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Available, £1250.
Last British square rigger to ‘trade foreign’, available as a signed, numbered print on canvas from Marine Art Prints
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Available, yours for £1500.
Available, yours for £1200.
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> The Golden Hinde <
Stolen : I’m sad to say this mini masterpiece was taken to Holland by Maryse Sportouch, and never paid for. Piracy? At least I retain the copyright…
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Baghlah – the traditional deep-sea dhow
Commissioned on behalf if His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said.
The Image appears as the front cover of a best selling book “The Corsair”.
Fine paintings sell books.
Yours for £1500.
A very early example of my emerging talent
Yours for £250.
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Maria Asumpta entering Plymouth
‘Maria Asumpta‘ was ship I spent very many hours aboard.
Painting sold to a private collector.
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“Rhoda Mary” and “Katie Cluett”
Sold, available as a signed, numbered print on canvas from Marine Art Prints
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“Ferriera” ex “Cutty Sark”, “Last Departure”
Sold, available as a signed, numbered print on canvas from Marine Art Prints
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Tectona & Moyana off the Eddystone
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“Tectona, dawn off Bolt Head”
Available £1,500.00
“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 15.10.2019
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