The Landscape Art of Gordon Frickers
Passover this evening, a festival commemorating slavery to freedom, many of the words of the service that accompanies the dinner unchanged for 2700 years… ‘Hag Sameach’, as the Haggadah (book) tells us “all who are hungry, let them come and eat” and the Haggadah finishes with the words “Next Year in Jerusalem”.
Roche-Bernard just for a change of scenery and some warm spring air, I drove there. Roche-Bernard is about 12 minutes from my ‘home’ by car. I took a long stroll re-exploring the picturesque quais and Artisan Quarter. En bord de Vilaine, La Roche–Bernard, labellisée Petite Cité de Caractère®, a su préserver son charme, son authenticité et un … Read more
NEW: Saint Emilion, the sentinel ‘King’s Tower’.
What makes for a classic painting, how to spot one?
A timeless painting will always interest people, give you pleasure every time you see it upon your wall, an excellent investment.
“The King’s Tower“, measures 40 x 61 cm (16″ x 24″), oils, by Gordon Frickers, modestly priced at £ 1,100.
#Spring is trying to spring in the South of Brittany, 18 C here today. The region has a ‘micro-climate’ so is first in the North to warm ~ and only 2 hrs drive south from St Malo’s ferry port.
Animal Rights: Farmers blame badgers for cattle TB? Droits des animaux: Les agriculteurs accusent les blaireaux pour la tuberculose du bétail, QUOI ? Cattle left out 24/7 in all weathers, summer and winter, with no shelter, not even a decent hedge or copse of trees, and the peasants blame BADGERS ! In the ‘good old’ … Read more
A frost here at Théhillac this morning. Local people have repeatedly assured me it doesn’t snow here, used to 20 years or more ago, not now though. Anyway, the bar is open so all is well with the world, vria n’est pas?
Climate Change? > is the best reason I know for North Europeans to move South.
Last night the temperature at the North Pole was 0 while most of Europe shivered in minus 5 to minus 25…
From an article published in the Sydney Morning Post, a journal who’s archives I used when painting “Emigration, Plymouth Cattewater“.
This splendid original painting, perhaps strangely, never exhibited at Plymouth, measures 76 x 121 cms (30″ x 48″), oils, is available; if £35,000 is a bit rich for you, go for a signed marine print on canvas from £147 inc P&P, for the look and feel of the original.
From the mast head, a sailor’s view > There is open water north of #Greenland where the thickest sea ice of the #Arctic used to be. It is not refreezing quickly because air temperatures are above zero confirmed by @dmidk’s weather station.
An addition the the Bordeaux, Picturesque Wine Village Series. A new landscape painting, measures 60 x 90 cm ( 23 5/8″ x 35.5″), oils on canvas, available. A fine perspective most tourist miss, a new landscape beginning, of Saint Emilion. To acquire or commission a similar painting Contact US ~ T:+ 44 (0)1865 52 2435 or Skype … Read more
Combating January Blues… and by way of getting my painting started this year I’ve reworked this painting and added a ‘Further reading’ page
by Gordon Frickers 61 x 81 cm (24″ x 32″), oils £1500.00
The painting
Haunting, sultry, symbolic, inspired by a dream, inspire by an event, inspired by a loss, painted because I wanted to, had to.
An emotional painting that means different things to different people…
“I believe that this one is most inspirational… In a very different way than previous art that I have seen of yours!
I love how you captured the quality without sacrificing detail“. (Carol Lynn 03.04.2016 via Facebook)
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