Frickers is the only marine artist invited to Exhibit at the European Parliament by invitation, “Life on the Ocean Wave”.
European Parliament Paintings by Gordon Frickers, an historic and unique art event.
Gordon Frickers is one of the very few artists invited to exhibit at the European Parliament, the only Marine Artist so honoured.
Each of the original paintings and or prints illustrated on this page is of a picture displayed at this splendid exhibition.
If you appreciate and are looking for the best in marine painting you have found it here.
“The Marine Art of Gordon Frickers”
All these fine paintings and prints are available unless otherwise stated.
“Life on the ocean wave” is a book, a catalogue, introducing this beautiful exhibition in the heart of Europe.
The exhibition was held in the European Parliament, Brussels, May 2011.
"HMS Formidable", 61 x 41 cm (24" x 16"), Commission, Sold. Available as a print from our print page.
"Thames Sailing Barge Cambria and M.V. River Trader", 46 x 35 cm (18" x 14"), £1,250. Also available as a print from our print page.
New: M.V. “River Trader” built 1989, British registered. Old: S.B. Cambria built in 1906 became the last working Thames Sailing barge.
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"Ark Royal, Plymouth", 37 x 28 cm (14½" x 11"), £550.
HMS Ark Royal, the most famous ship of the Royal Navy in the 1970’s.
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"Ben Ainslie Going for Gold", 101 x 76 cm (40" x 30"), £4,000.
Ben Ainslie and Gordon Frickers co-operated closely to produce this unique Olympic Games gold medal action portrait after the Sydney Olympic Games.
"Royal Yacht Britannia (1893)", 101 x 76 cm (40" x 30"), Original Sold, a couple of prints left last time I checked... . Available as a print from our print page.
"Clansman at Barra", 91 x 61 cm (36" x 24"), Commissioned by Calmac. Available as a print from our print page.
"Falmouth Harbour, Sunset", 37 x 28 cm (14½" x 11"), £750.
This painting of Falmouth Harbour, Sunset, sub-titled “After a day sailing,” was painted on location.
"Miami Beach", 81 x 51 cm (32" x 20"), £3,000.
Miami Beach and ‘Emerald Seas’ is beautifully shown here entering Government Cut, the final approach to the port of Miami.
"Plymouth, Emigration", 122 x 76 cm (48" x 30"), £8,775. Also available as a print from our print page.
Maritime Plymouth paintings, , between 1815 and 1914, over 430,000 people left as emigrants, most of them via this Wharf.
"Fate of a Fishing Fleet, Plymouth Trawlers", 50 x 40 cm (19½" x 15½"), original sold to a gentleman in Mississippi, USA.
"Boeing 727 landing", 61 x 46 cm (24" x 18"), £2,000.
A very unusual painting after an invitation from Captain S.R. Sanderson who was interested in painting and First officer G. Sharp to join them and create an impression as they landed Boeing 727 G-BJCU.
"Antibes Evening", 102 x 76 cm (40" x 30"), £4,000.
On the often shinning Cote d’Azur, ancient Antibes basks in a warm evening sun and hosts the Antibes Yacht Show.
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"Zeven Provinciën", 92 x 51 cm (36" x 20"), commissioned for and by the late Henk van der Hoef. Available as a print from our print page.
"Mauretania prints & painting, The Most Famous 4 Funnel Cunard Liner.", 76 x 50 cm (30" x 19½"), Sold. Available as a print from our print page.
"Maiden, Ice Maiden", 102 x 76 cm (40" x 30"), Sold to Tracy Edwards, OBE and Maiden skipper of the first all-female crew to circumnavigate the globe. Available as a print from our print page.
"The Port of Chester (1863)", 152 x 76 cm (60" x 30"), sold to a private collector. Available as a print from our print page.
"Treasure Ships, Frigates", 46 x 30 cm (18" x 12"), £6,000.
On course for Trafalgar, intelligence believed by the British Government who sent 4 British Royal Navy frigates to arrest 2 Royal Spanish Navy frigates.
"Nelson and Minerve", 91 x 46 cm (36" x 18"), £25,000.
Nelson’s voyage in the ‘Minerve’ is overlooked by most authors, and yet a young Nelson significantly demonstrates his style and power of leadership during the voyage.
"“Nelson’s Bright Yellow”", 41 x 28 cm (16" x 11"), £5,000.
Yellow? an order from Nelson to the dockyard at Malta for paints to make a bright yellow paint, a colour he thought looked “more warlike” and which became the ‘signature of his ships including those who sailed with him, his “Band of brothers”.
"Charlestown, October Evening", 91 x 61 cm (36" x 24"), Sold to a private Dutch collector. Available as a print from our print page.
"Robin Knox-Johnston, “Roaring Forties”", 122 x 76 cm (48" x 30"), commissioned and owned by Sir Robin Knox-Johnson. Available as a print from our print page.
"“Trafalgar Dawn”", 122 x 30 cm (48" x 12"), Sold to a private (Dutch) collector. Available as a print from our print page.
"Tectona off Bolt Head", 61 x 40 cm (24" x 15½"), £1,175.
A unique painting and story; Tectona off Bolt Head, (available) saved this historic old vessel and helped put her back to work sail training young people.
"The Boat Breakers.", 50 x 40 cm (19½" x 15½"), £1,500.
Plymouth City Council in it’s ‘wisdom’, had decided a number of historic abandoned vessels, wrecks and a swing railway bridge should be demolished.
"Brest 96", 58 x 41 cm (23" x 16"), £750.
The huge traditional boat festival, over 2000 boats at Brest grew out of French enthusiasm for restoring old vessels and building replicas.
"Lapérouse and the First Fleet at Botany Bay", 91 x 61 cm (36" x 24"), price upon application.
Our scene represents Laperouse meeting The First Fleet at Botany Bay, Australia.
Laperouse was the French answer to the sensational discoveries of Captain James Cook.
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"Mermaid’s Pool", 62 x 47 cm (24½" x 18½"), £1,200.
Mermaids bask at Mermaid’s Pool, painting at Kynance Cove in the far West of Cornwall where legends abound.
"Albacores at Grimsby", 41 x 28 cm (16" x 11"), £750.
Michael McNamara, an exceptional sailor, sail maker, sailing coach, asked for a study like this one as a gift for his Father and Mother to remind them of their sons learning to race sail boats.
"Trafalgar Dawn, French Perspective", 122 x 30 cm (48" x 12"), £15,000. Also available as a print from our print page.
Trafalgar myths, legend and propaganda tell us the men of France and Spain were surprised by Nelson at Trafalgar, not true and they fought with remarkable bravery, behaving with great gallantry after.
"Coaster departing Par Docks", 30 x 23 cm (12" x 9"), £750.
A study made on location of a moment that is already history, the departure of a coaster laden with China Clay, from Par Docks.
"Pearl fishermen and a Sanbaq Pirate Dhow", 53 x 63 cm (21" x 25"), £2,000.
A painting of one of these picturesque historic vessels engaged in an ancient and romantic trade, vessels little known beyond their home waters.
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"Flying Scotsman and Brunel’s Bridge", 91 x 51 cm (36" x 20"), £3,257. Also available as a print from our print page.
Flying Scotsman, the world’s most famous steam engine, with Pullman cars crossing I K Brunel’s remarkable Royal Albert Bridge, Devon and Cornwall.
"Schooners “Rhoda Mary” & “Katie Cluett”", 122 x 76 cm (48" x 30"), commissioned by Frank Trebilcock, a descendant of the families who built the three renowned vessels two schooners and a sloop. Available as a print from our print page.
"“Waterwitch” off Gribben Head, Cornwall", 50 x 40 cm (19½" x 15½"), Sold to a private collector. Available as a print from our print page.
"I have Urgent Dispatches", 91 x 63 cm (36" x 25"), £18,000. Also available as a print from our print page.
Trafalgar, HMS Pickle signalling “I have Urgent Dispatches”, this is a race, this is not yachting.
"The White Sun", 33 x 21 cm (13" x 8½"), £675.
The White Sun painting radiating peace, calm and karma, from the happiest periods of my life, owning this painting will improve your karma, will bring you luck.
"Paintings of Plymouth, the Emigration Depot", 63 x 38 cm (25" x 15"), £850.
Painting Plymouth Emigration Depot a lost history, an extensively researched painting, one Plymouth should celebrate and be proud of.
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"Prince Philip Yachting", 91 x 61 cm (36" x 24"), £10,000.
I was able to get close enough to Prince Philip to create this painting and by happy chance Prince Philip, helming his friend’s Sigma 38 yacht Yeoman XXVIII, won that particular race.
"‘Yamaha’ Racing Home", 121 x 76 cm (47½" x 30"), £3,500.
The other of this pair of Yamaha paintings I last heard of as in the Yamaha Boardroom in Japan.
"Dhow and Dolphins", 61 x 48 cm (24" x 19"), £1,500.
Dolphins love to accompany ships often playing in the pressure wave created by water displaced by the moving hull.
"“Jane Banks” entering Bermuda", 61 x 41 cm (24" x 16"), £1,250. Also available as a print from our print page.
The schooner “Jane Banks”, running mate of the famous ‘Waterwitch’ of Fowey, sailed into history as the last pure sailing British square rigger to trade abroad and the engine-less last topsail schooner to operate from a British Port, Fowey in Cornwall.
European Parliament Paintings exhibition
This is the first time a significant collection of works of the Art of Gordon Frickers has been exhibited.
“Life on the Ocean Wave” was opened and introduced by by Mr. Brian Simpson MEP.
Mr. Brian Simpson, Chair of the Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament, wrote an introduction for the catalogue, for your convenience it is copied below.
We still have available a few copies of the book Life on the Ocean Wave, ISBN 0-978-0-9569109-0-5.
«I would like to extend a warm welcome to ‘Life on the Ocean Wave‘ by Gordon Frickers.
Whilst searching for information about my father’s ship, the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable, known to her crew as ‘Formid‘, I discovered The Marine Art of Gordon Frickers.
“HMS Formidable, 1942 sunset, Seafires returning” astonished me and I’m very pleased that it is shown here today.
The ariel sky, fluid sea, with mysterious light and colour. I discovered Frickers’ colours are sometimes surprising yet always harmonious and entertaining, the details charmed me, even down to the way a Mark II Seafire is shown landing, typically weaving because the pilot could not ‘see over the nose’ during final approach.
Gordon’s paintings have a remarkable vitality that draws the observer into the picture, often making one feel one is ‘there’.
Speaking with Gordon Frickers it was soon apparent that while Gordon is very sociable he rarely exhibits.
I was astonished to discover Gordon has got to where he is entirely on merit working mostly to commission or on subjects of his choice.
I remain surprised that The Art of Gordon Frickers has no sponsor, no patron, no major galleries, no marketing; it is success on merit.It is our good luck and thoroughly appropriate to have the Frickers marine paintings here at the European Parliament and we are doubly fortunate to have assembled, for the first time, some of Gordon’s most significant works to display under our roof.
We know four fifths of our planet is covered by sea and ocean.
The sea is a place of transport and tourism, a place where we work and play.
The sea is vital to Europeans, the vast majority of our exports and imports continue to travel by sea.
The sea is a job for rugged clever people.
Europeans are wedded to the sea as possibly no other people.
The sea is as much our cultural cradle as agriculture and manufacturing, philosophy, innovation and our arts.The sea is part of us as we are part of it.
The sea is a place of movement, of ideas, challenges and change, of heading for destinations, sometimes new destinations. We learnt to navigate by the stars and someday inspired by the sea our new ships will voyage to the stars.As I explored his website I was next surprised by his versatility.
Few artists can handle modern and ancient shipping so well.
Gordon produces ‘formidable’ paintings.In each of the paintings that are Frickers’ work we find a theme, sometimes great, sometimes small, there is inevitably a story about us and the people who laboured to shape our modern world.
Frickers is an ambassador today and for future generations for our marine world.
I recommend The Art of Gordon Frickers as exceptional, a joy to own and a sound investment.I hope you enjoy the exhibition.»
Mr. Brian Simpson MEP.
“Life on the ocean wave” – a unique art event in the heart of Europe, May 2011.
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