Beside the sea, as the old music hall song says, “oooooh I do like to beside the sea side…”
You wish you were here?
Beside the sea, in the sea, taking health time out from painting, writing and …
Marine Art
Helping the Musée Lapérouse
Une petite visite au magnifique musée de Laperouse https://albi.fr/annuaire-des-equipements/musee-laperouse dans sa ville natale d’Albi. Je suis Albi Passionnément 😀. Je tiens tout particulièrement à remercier Armelle pour son accueil et son aide 🙂.⚓
The museum needs funds and I wish to help, perhaps by selling my painting🙂⚓.
Le musée a besoin de fonds et j’aimerais apporter mon aide, peut-être en vendant mon tableau 🙂⚓.
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Why don’t you teach painting?
Try looking carefully at this series of illustrations you can see many valuable clues that help you understand how a complex painting is created. 
The still images are invaluable for study although I do sometimes wish I had the funds to spare for a decent video cam and editing programme. 
H M S Formidable
HMS Formidable, May 4, 1945 something happened that astonished the U S Navy.
Formidable, aircraft carrier (flat top), distinguished herself in almost every theatre of war during World War 2.
Saint Dolay, OSEZ III weekend.
OSEZ III, Saint Dolay, Je tiens à remercier sincèrement les nombreux bénévoles pleins de bonne humeur qui ont organisé le week-end à Saint Dolay, de l’ OSEZ III weekend.
Drake in the Wake of Magellan
follow the page ‘Drake in the Wake of Magellan’ attached hyperlinks to better understand this painting, discover what Drake said about Queen Elizabeth and much more.
Titanic Rescue Gloom
Titanic painting, her spirit of optimism, confidence & grandeur, the world’s most famous ship.
Titanic at her best
Gloom over #TitanicRescue , here is something cheerful, a reminder that #Titanic represented the very best of her day.
Yachting
Do you own a yacht? Proud of your yacht, photographs fade, you too can commission a beautiful, enduring painting by Gordon Frickers. 91 x 61 (36″ x 24″) “It (the painting) is already giving me great pleasure and is reminding me to make more time available for the joy of sailing.” Clive R. King. Commission … Read more
Lord Nelson
Lord Nelson of the Jubilee Sailing Trust needs funds very urgently. The Lord Nelson which was the idea of a school teacher Christopher Rudd. STS Lord Nelson is currently languishing in Bristol docks, named after our most famous disabled sailor. I still have this painting. It’s on this website (see Nelson and Trafalgar) and if … Read more