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Carcassonne Paintings

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 by Gordon Frickers

Carcassonne is new in effect and one of my more significant paintings ‘weighting in at’ 76 x 121 cm (30″ x 48″) and is offered for a modest 3,275 £. I’ve been busy with new ideas atmospheric, poetic, romantic, and a lot more hours lavished on this now even richer painting. Carcassonne, a painting, one … Read more

Carcassonne Morning

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 by Gordon Frickers

‘Carcassonne Morning, a much enlarged detail’ from this splendid 122 x 76 (48″ x 30″) painting, soon to be available. Carcassonne is without doubt the most famous monument between Monte Carlo and Bordeaux so very well worth a visit. Travellers tip, the restaurants in the place central are great value and buzz with atmosphere, enjoy … Read more

Six Legged elephant

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 by Gordon Frickers

I’ve resumed painting this week. J’ai repris la peinture cette semaine. The Six Legged Elephant painting is on the move, progressing (at last!), getting the architecture ‘right’ is time consuming, has to be done even as you will soon see, though I’ll loose most of it in the finished painting. La peinture de l’éléphant à … Read more

Carcassonne paintings

April 20, 2023April 20, 2023 by Gordon Frickers

Carcassonne, a newly completed painting of the most famous monument between Monte Carlo and Bordeaux. Carcassonne painting 76 x 121 cm (30″ x 48″), 5,275 £ Carcassonne with a sunrise over the Black Mountains. Carcassonne is a legendary almost fairy tale city set among vines, pines, herbs and wild flowers in the beautiful Aude … Read more

Carcassonne, vines and Black Mountains

March 22, 2016 by Gordon Frickers

Completed this week, “Carcassonne, Vines and Black Mountains”, the most recent changes to this landscape painting are by way of fine tuning. In particular you may notice when compared with the previous post (20 th February) the sky has changed significantly and a cloud shadow has been placed before the city wall. The effect of … Read more

Carcassone, painting progress

February 20, 2016 by Gordon Frickers

This painting as yet unfinished is the second of a series exploring the theme of Carcassonne. If you like to see how it’s ‘done’, you may like to compare these images with my previous post Undoubtedly Carcassonne is the most celebrated monument between Monte Carlo and Biarritz. Less well know are the delights of the … Read more

Is this an odd looking design?

September 26, 2015 by Gordon Frickers

The Early stage of a ‘late’ new 61 x 91 cms (24″ x 36″) painting, Anyone guess what will happen here, the subject?

Carcassonne, painting in progress

September 3, 2015September 3, 2015 by Gordon Frickers

Painting Carcassonne, well not all of it.

A question for you?
Should I continue to paint here or is this painting already sufficiently pleasing to stop soon ?

New sketchs, 8 weeks in mind

August 16, 2015August 16, 2015 by Gordon Frickers

Of Carcassonne, the most celebrated monument between Monte Carlo and Bordeaux, a modest beginning for a mini project…

Carcassonne fireworks 2015

February 6, 2016July 19, 2015 by Gordon Frickers

Bastille Day, probably the best firework display in France, and a visit to the most famous monument between Monte Carlo and Bordeaux, Carcassonne; ostensibly to see the justifiably famous fireworks. I am planning a new mini series of paintings inside and outside Carcassonne a fabulous city in the largest wine growing region of France, Languedoc-Roussillon.