{{Short description|British painter (born 1949)}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} '''Gordon Frickers''' (born 1949 in Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom<ref name="wivenhoe">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Gordon Frickers |url=http://www.wivenhoe.gov.uk/History/gordon_frickers.htm |encyclopedia=The Wivenhoe Encyclopedia |publisher=Wivenhoe Town Council |access-date=22 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121164647/http://www.wivenhoe.gov.uk/History/gordon_frickers.htm |archivedate=21 November 2008 }}</ref>) is a marine artist based in Plymouth, Devon, but also paints in France. Frickers was the first marine artist to be exhibited at the European Parliament in Brussels in May 2011.<ref name="BMF 2011">{{cite web|title=Life on the Ocean Wave |url=http://www.britishmarine.co.uk/news__press/news_article.aspx?ArticleId=3122 |work=News & Press |publisher=British Marine Federation |accessdate=30 June 2011 |date=14 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930073217/http://www.britishmarine.co.uk/news__press/news_article.aspx?ArticleId=3122 |archivedate=30 September 2011 }}</ref><ref name="Lloyds List 2011">{{cite news|first=Eric|last=van den Berg|title=Brussels date for Frickers|url=http://www.lloydslist.com/ll/sector/regulation/article368589.ece|accessdate=4 July 2011|newspaper=Lloyd's List|date=12 April 2011}}</ref>
==Education and experience== * Maidstone College of Fine Art (later part of Kent Institute of Art & Design and now part of University for the Creative Arts) and Medway College : Visual Communication, Photography for advertising & media * Falmouth Technical College : Ship & Boat Building;<ref name="wivenhoe" /><ref name="cranston">{{cite web|title=Gordon Frickers|url=http://www.military-art.com/mall/artist.php?ArtistID=848|work=Cranston Fine Arts – Artist Listings|publisher=Military Print Company|accessdate=30 June 2011}}</ref> * Montmiral School of Painting (South West France) * Plymouth College of Further Education (now City College Plymouth) : Internet, E business, web design<ref name="wivenhoe" />
In addition to being an artist, Frickers is also a master shipwright and marine and art historian.<ref name="cranston" /> At one time he was managing director of Southeast Boat Building.<ref name="Lloyds List 2011" />
==Awards and memberships== * Four times chosen Yachting World/Rolex-Swan prize artist<ref name="wivenhoe" /> * Member of the British Marine Federation<ref>{{cite web|title=Gordon Frickers|url=http://www.bmfsw.co.uk/memberpage/Gordon_Frickers/|work=Member List|publisher=British Marine Federation|accessdate=30 June 2011}}</ref> * Member of SuperyachtUK<ref>{{cite web |title=Gordon Frickers |url=https://superyachtuk.com/MySYUK/Member-Profiles/Gordon-Frickers |work=Member Profiles |publisher=Superyacht UK |accessdate=22 August 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810183540/http://superyachtuk.com/MySYUK/Member-Profiles/Gordon-Frickers |archivedate=10 August 2015 }}</ref>
==Works== Works and series by Frickers include:
* "I have urgent dispatches" which depicts the schooner ''HMS Pickle'' conveying news of the death of Nelson and victory at Trafalgar<ref name="Goodwin 2005">{{cite book|last=Goodwin|first=Peter|title=The Ships of Trafalgar: The British, French and Spanish Fleets, 21 October 1805|year=2005|publisher=Conway Maritime|location=London|isbn=1-84486-015-9|page=256}}</ref><ref name="Lloyds List 2005">{{cite news|newspaper=Lloyd's List|date=19 August 2005|page=6}}</ref> * "Trafalgar Dawn", the view from ''HMS Victory'' at 6:05 am on the morning of 21 October 1805<ref name="Lloyds List 2005" /><ref name="Goodwin 2002">{{cite book|last=Goodwin|first=Peter|title=Nelson's Ships: A History of the Vessels in which he Served 1771 – 1805|year=2002|publisher=Conway Maritime|location=London|isbn=0-85177-742-2|page=192}}</ref> * "Trafalgar Dawn, the French Perspective" showing the view Vice-Admiral Villeneuve had from his flagship ''Bucentaure'' just before the battle<ref name="Lloyds List 2011" /> * 1994 "''Nexus''", the ''Cable Ship Nexus'' commissioned by BT Marine and donated to Coe Metcalf Shipping of Liverpool, who had converted the oil drilling ship ''Pelican 2'' to become ''CS Nexus''<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Western Morning News|date=14 October 1994}}</ref><ref name="Lloyds List 1994">{{cite news|last=Monitor|title=People and Places|url=http://www.lloydslist.com/ll/sector/ship-operations/article267731.ece|accessdate=4 July 2011|newspaper=Lloyd's List|date=26 April 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Monitor|title=People and Places|url=http://www.lloydslist.com/ll/sector/ship-operations/article270723.ece|accessdate=4 July 2011|newspaper=Lloyd's List|date=11 January 1995}}</ref> * 1991 "''Cable Ship Sovereign''" commissioned by BT Marine for their boardroom<ref name="Lloyds List 1994" /> * "The Port of Chester"<ref name="Evening Herald 1993">{{cite news|newspaper=The Evening Herald|date=21 May 1993}}</ref> * "''Royal Yacht Britannia'' (1893)"<ref name="wivenhoe" /> * "''Uganda'' entering Falmouth with tugs to lay up after the Falklands war" * "''Dumra'' departing Bombay in a rising S.W. monsoon", for Sir Robin Knox-Johnston to celebrate Sir Robin's earliest times at sea<ref>{{cite web|title=Gordon Frickers|url=http://www.biship.com/frickers.htm|work=BI Art Gallery|publisher=John Prescott|accessdate=30 June 2011}}</ref> * "Cunard Express Steamer The ''Mauretania''"<ref name="cranston" /> * "Plymouth Cattewater", which shows a clipper loading in the early 1880s before her imminent departure for Australia * "''HMS Formidable'', Seafires Returning", painted for a lady<!-- my mother, S White b1921 d2011 --> whose husband<!-- my father, JWW Baker b1920 d1952 --> had served as a pilot<ref>{{cite news|title=Artist gets vote in Brussels|url=http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Artist-gets-vote-Brussels/story-11697617-detail/story.html|accessdate=2 July 2011|newspaper=This is Devon|date=29 June 2010}}</ref> * "''Norway''", the cruise ship, leaving Miami<ref name="Lloyds List 2011" /> * The voyage of the French explorer Lapérouse series * Historic & Picturesque Wine Villages of Bordeaux series
Some of Frickers work has been reproduced as limited edition prints<ref name="wivenhoe" />
==Patrons== Frickers patrons and clients include:
* The Sail Training Association (now the Tall Ships Youth Trust)<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Western Morning News|date=2 February 1999}}</ref> * Caledonian MacBrayne<ref name="wivenhoe" /><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Calmac press release|date=6 February 2001}}</ref> * British Telecom (Marine) Ltd.<ref name="Lloyds List 1994" /><ref name="Tarn">{{cite web |title=Gordon Frickers Painting Exhibition |url=http://www.frenchentree.com/tarn-aveyron-events/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=28941 |accessdate=30 June 2011 |work=Tarn & Aveyron Events |publisher=FrenchEntrée Magazine}}</ref> * Cunard Line * Yamaha<ref name="wivenhoe" /> * Sir Robin Knox-Johnston * Maiden G.B. (Tracy Edwards) * Blue Arrow America's Cup * The National Trust * Imperial Tobacco (Award won) * Devonport Management Limited * Marine Projects (now known as Princess Yachts) * Coe Metcalf Shipping Ltd. * Corum – French Admiral's Cup Sponsor * Sir Richard Branson * Henri Lloyd Limited * La Maire de Sauternes * CPC (United Kingdom) Limited (name changed in 1998 to Best Foods Inc)<ref name="Tarn" />
==Exhibitions and galleries== Frickers work has been exhibited at:
* European Parliament, Brussels, May 2011<ref name="BMF 2011" /><ref name="Lloyds List 2011" /> * Buckingham Palace * London International Boat Show * Royal Society of Marine Artists * Maison de la Fontaine, City of Brest<ref name="cranston" /> * Chester Town Hall, including a Civic Reception<ref name="Evening Herald 1993" /> * La Mairie, L'ile sur Tarn, October, November 2007<ref name="Tarn" /> * 1868 Restaurant, King David Street, Jerusalem, May 2007<ref>{{cite news|last=Davis|first=Barry|title=Long forgotten Israel paintings find new life|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=15 May 2007|page=24}}</ref>
Frickers' wine villages of France paintings have been exhibited at Gallerie Marin in Appledore, north Devon.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Plymouth Western Morning News|title=A colourful view of life in France|date=30 September 2006|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10123632.html|accessdate=30 June 2011}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
==Books and TV== Frickers work has appeared in:
* The Nelson Almanac edited by David Harris<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=David |editor-last=Harris|title=The Nelson Almanac: A Book of Days Recording Nelson's Life and the Events That Shaped His Era|year=1998|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-755-4|page=192}}</ref> * Nelson's Ships by Peter Goodwin<ref name="Goodwin 2002" /> * Ships of Trafalgar by Peter Goodwin<ref name="Goodwin 2005" /> * Fighting Ships 1750–1850 by Sam Willis<ref>{{cite book|last=Willis|first=Sam; introduction by N.A.M. Rodger|title=Fighting ships, 1750-1850|year=2007|publisher=Quercus Publishing|location=London|isbn=978-1-84724-171-9|page=224}}</ref>
Frickers appeared in the 2010 TV documentary series, The Boats that Built Britain.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Pickle|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1660123/|work=The Boats That Built Britain (TV series documentary 2010)|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=30 June 2011}}</ref>
==External links== * [http://www.frickers.co.uk Gordon Frickers]
==Notes and references== {{reflist}}
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