Gordon Frickers

Education and experience

• Maidstone College of Fine Art and Medway College : Visual Communication, Photography for advertising & media
• Falmouth Technical College : Ship & Boat Building;
• Montmiral School of Painting
• Plymouth College of Further Education : Internet, E business, web design

Awards and memberships

• Four times chosen Yachting World/Rolex-Swan prize artist
• Member of the British Marine Federation
• Member of SuperyachtUK

Works

• "I have urgent dispatches" which depicts the schooner HMS Pickle conveying news of the death of Nelson and victory at Trafalgar
• "Trafalgar Dawn", the view from HMS Victory at 6:05 am on the morning of 21 October 1805
• "Trafalgar Dawn, the French Perspective" showing the view Vice-Admiral Villeneuve had from his flagship Bucentaure just before the battle
• 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
• 1991 "Cable Ship Sovereign" commissioned by BT Marine for their boardroom
• "The Port of Chester"
• "Royal Yacht Britannia "
• "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
• "Cunard Express Steamer The Mauretania"
• "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 whose husband had served as a pilot
• "Norway", the cruise ship, leaving Miami
• The voyage of the French explorer Lapérouse series
• Historic & Picturesque Wine Villages of Bordeaux series

Patrons

• The Sail Training Association
• Caledonian MacBrayne
• British Telecom (Marine) Ltd.
• Cunard Line
• Yamaha
• Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
• Maiden G.B.
• Blue Arrow America's Cup
• The National Trust
• Imperial Tobacco
• Devonport Management Limited
• Marine Projects
• Coe Metcalf Shipping Ltd.
• Corum – French Admiral's Cup Sponsor
• Sir Richard Branson
• Henri Lloyd Limited
• La Maire de Sauternes
• CPC Limited

Exhibitions and galleries

• European Parliament, Brussels, May 2011
• Buckingham Palace
• London International Boat Show
• Royal Society of Marine Artists
• Maison de la Fontaine, City of Brest
• Chester Town Hall, including a Civic Reception
• La Mairie, L'ile sur Tarn, October, November 2007
• 1868 Restaurant, King David Street, Jerusalem, May 2007

Books and TV

• The Nelson Almanac edited by David Harris
• Nelson's Ships by Peter Goodwin
• Ships of Trafalgar by Peter Goodwin
• Fighting Ships 1750–1850 by Sam Willis