The Landscape Art of Gordon Frickers
Cold nights, enough to frost your freezicles here this morning … A few of the many small beauties of a cold winter.
The Mermaid’s Pool of Kynance Cove, near The Lizard, Cornwall is a place with a legend few visitors discover. Beautiful secrets set in green granite and with more than one delightful surprise to reward the adventurous. For those of you curious about mermaids and Cornish legends, your further pleasure, I have updated the page and … Read more
New on this website, a fine large landscape Painting, typical of golden Southern France 76 x 1202 cm (30” x 40”), by Gordon Frickers, with this painting you are literally buying gold, as explained below. Available £/€ 3,000, > with your credit card Purchase Now < via Paypal, in any currency, or £/€, or bank … Read more
New on this web site, an experimental landscape painting, cornfields and forests, in Southern France.
One of five experimental paintings made on the same location, at the same time of day on successive days.
The objective being to see how my colour and emotional response varied.
As the heavy gales of the past 36 hours ease and the barometer begins to rise I’m reminded by today’s dawn of my remarkable Sunrise Series, each one a painting as it happened, made ‘plien aire’. Painting ‘plien aire’ by Gordon Frickers, 40 x 50 cm (15¾” x 19¾”). Available £/€ 1,250. > with your … Read more
A lunch with the brilliant Francis Pratt, potato, leek and broccoli soup, salad and a few other goodies the best of which is our conversations. I met Francis when realising I have very odd colour vision, ‘special eyes’ or ‘colour blind’ being two extremes of description, I first attended his Painting School of Montmiral way … Read more
HRH Queen Elizabeth when visiting Cordes sur Ciel was served wine chosen from the domain de la Chanade.
I feel privileged and complimented to have been asked to photograph this season’s production of wines at the Famous domain de la Chanade.
Actually, a story for another time maybe, I first met the owner, Christian, in a Gaillac supermarket when we where both buying fruit and veggies
Wish you where here ?
After an 8 hr 45 minute drive I arrived safely at the house of my friend Hervé Boitel in the Tarn department.
I drove through a mixture of heavy rain and bright sunshine, yet again wishing I had a co driver.
We have to make the best of what we have don’t we?
I stopped en route at the Aire de Vendee and as it was raining in fair imitation of a tropical downpour and chilly too, I ignored my salmon and mayo sandwiches and treated myself to a nice hot meal.
My mostly very good driving record was blotted for me by my car being side swiped in heavy traffic on the Bordeaux periferique by a driver who did not stop.
That will set me back 90 € for the damage excess on my insurance …
Such is life, I’m shipshape and the car will benefit from a respray on that side.
The ‘Rose’ city, Toulouse, a long drive from Brittany, worth it, the South West is like another world and warm to hot dry weather here. Lunch with Lilly Malek. We have been friends for a decade or more. It’s not a ‘romantic’ relationship in the ‘passionate’ sense. Rather two who live mostly alone, people from … Read more
While driving South in France yesterday from Brittany, I passed Saint Emilion, one of my favourite places to paint. Saint Emilion, a great place to make paintings is for many people Saint Emilion France personified. Saint Emilion is classified as ‘une Petite cité de caractère’ is also justifiably the most famous name for red wine. … Read more