The Landscape Art of Gordon Frickers
Trafalgar First Shots, this painting is based upon the reports of French officers. Example, ” at a quarter past noon they were within gunshot”, Captain Magendie of the flagship Bucentaure. One of the 17 Nelson and Trafalgar series, as yet never exhibited in public of a gallery. This ‘First Shots’ measures 122 x 76 cm … Read more
Form Line of Battle, 11.00, Monday, 21st October, 1805, Nelson’s Column. Form Line of Battle, Nelson was a man who lead from the front hence this impressive sight, a maritime painting with HMS Victory leading her division. This painting is based upon the ship’s logs, diaries, letters and the Admiralty Committee Report on Trafalgar for … Read more
Trafalgar Dawn, Monday, 21st October, 06.05, this unique and awesome painting places YOU with the men on board H.M.S. Victory, Nelson’s flagship. You are seeing what the men described, you are seeing the “Trafalgar Dawn”. ““Trafalgar Dawn” measures, 122 x 30 cm (48″ x 12”) and is long since sold however, this painting is available … Read more
Trafalgar Dawn, Monday, 21st October 1805 at approximately 06.15 , Trafalgar Dawn, the French Perspective. You are seeing what the men on the French flagship Beaucenture described, the British fleet of Lord Nelson off Cape Trafalgar. The website url is https://frickers.co.uk/…/trafalgar-dawn-the-french…/ The research for this definitive painting took 10 years to complete during which I … Read more
Leadership, have you tried comparing Horatio Nelson with the monsters who lead Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-q etc. ‘Nelson at Gibraltar’ shows you a significant moment missed by most historians. An adventure began where we see his leadership revealed https://frickers.co.uk/art/marine-and-maritime-paintings/nelson-and-trafalgar/ This painting is one of the 17 in my ‘Nelson & Trafalgar’ series, many showing less … Read more
Nelson, the anniversary of his most famous battle and heroic death off Cape Trafalgar, approaches. Few dispute Nelson earned his place as one of the great British heroes. Less known, as an adolescent Nelson served as an ordinary seaman among ‘ordinary’ men on merchants ships sailing “before the mast’ meaning not as an officer or … Read more
Pirate and galleon concept sketch. Pirate and the galleon, pirate or privateer, either way he is about to become very, very rich. A quick ‘working’ sketch as the beginning of a design for a new painting, regularly follow this page to be first to see what happens
Saint Emilion paintings, a series of paintings of which most are created on location. Legendary, fabulous, memorable, Saint Emilion the First name in red wines, painted at sunset. Here is a detail I’ve been working on because soon we will be telling a story and celebrating some good news about the painting. This splendid Saint … Read more
After yesterday’s strong gale, a stroll around my autumnal garden . Good light for painting today !
Ocean of plastic, an ocean of plastic, even in our rivers and lakes, micro plastics in our drinking water, very stupid. I first protested these pollutions many years astern by repeatedly photographing the rubbish on Gylingvase beach, Falmouth, many years astern. The journal Falmouth Packet published the photos as did Lloyds List International. There was … Read more