Gaillac painting in the heart of L’Occitane, France, a region long aeons famous for wines chosen for kings.
40 x 50 cm (16″ x 20″) A splendid investment for 2,500 £ not a very large painting, one of my best though and a pleasure to own
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Gaillac painting on location by Gordon Frickers
described as “More than a match for anything in the Musee d’Orsay”,
said Alain Soreano, author, historian, poet, Maire-Adjoint, Chargé de la Culture et du Patrimoine, Ville de Gaillac, when introducing The Frickers Exhibition, December 2016.
Produced ‘plien aire’, literally painted in one gloriously inspired ‘session’ on location.
There was of course some very careful preparation.
Gaillac, at the heart of L’Occitane has for long centuries been the navigable head port of the capricious river Tarn, the second fastest flowing river in Europe.
River captains would say, “towards Gaillac” so that became the name of the regional wines and numerous other products such as sunflower seeds, wheat, timber and charcoal, Gaillac gave it’s name to this wine region despite nearby Albi being the larger town and regional ‘capital’.
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Here you see part of the Abbaye St Michele, part of the old port where in 1860 over 200 barges (gabarre) were registered at la capitainerie du port. The history of Gaillac as a port is known to run back at least as far as Phonetician times, pre Rome.
The bridge is the fourth recorded bridge built at Gaillac.
This road approaches from a spur of the autoroute, ‘La Route Pastel’ and is without doubt the most picturesque way to enter Gaillac particularly for your first time.
Your visit to Gaillac starts well with easy parking by or near the Abbeye St Michele, tourist and wine information available at the old Abbey.
This part of the extensive old quarter, in former years bustling with commerce for the capricious river Tarn is a good place to begin exploring this picturesque old town. Gaillac was at the navigable head of the river Tarn, a busy port from pre history until the arrival of the rail way, the painting “The Port of Gaillac 1863” commissioned for the wine museum at Broze gives a good idea of Gaillac at the height of it’s port life.
Many distinguished people and renowned companies chose Frickers paintings as you can discover by reading my illustrated résumée.
Gaillac and Gordon Frickers and paintings
I studied many times at the nearby Painting School of Montmiral in this beautiful region painting experimentally, pushing my boundaries.
I soon came to regard the Gaillac region as my second home.
When I moved to Brittany friends cried and said “why do you go, you are Gaillacois now”.
Such affection touches my heart and soul, i wish to return but this is not easy for me to achieve.
These paintings have distinctive, enduring qualities in part because Gordon Frickers has an unusually rich form of colour vision.
These are qualities, gifts he has in common with some of the greatest past masters including Cézanne Degas, Dürer, Titian and Rembrandt, Monet.
Gordon Frickers is one of the very few artists invited to created a one man show of (35) paintings (May 2011) at the European Parliament, Brussels, an impressive addition to his list of exhibitions in other prestigious venues in Britain and Europe.
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“The painting is even more beautiful in person than online. I love the texture and the use of light“.
John J. Hogerty II Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Bergstrom Corporation of his newly acquired painting, 12.12.2022, quoted for you with his kind permission.
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