Gordon Frickers

• 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;[1][4]
• Montmiral School of Painting (South West France)
• Plymouth College of Further Education (now City College Plymouth) : Internet, E business, web design [1]

In addition to being an artist, Frickers is also a master shipwright and marine and art historian.[4] At one time he was managing director of Southeast Boat Building.[3]

• Four times chosen Yachting World/Rolex-Swan prize artist [1]
• Member of the British Marine Federation[5]
• Member of SuperyachtUK [6]

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[7][8]
• "Trafalgar Dawn", the view from HMS Victory at 6:05 am on the morning of 21 October 1805 [8][9]
• "Trafalgar Dawn, the French Perspective" showing the view Vice-Admiral Villeneuve had from his flagship Bucentaure just before the battle[3]
• 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 [10][11][12]
• 1991 "Cable Ship Sovereign" commissioned by BT Marine for their boardroom [11]
• "The Port of Chester" [13]
• "Royal Yacht Britannia (1893)" [1]
• "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 [14]
• "Cunard Express Steamer The Mauretania" [4]
• "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 [15]
• "Norway", the cruise ship, leaving Miami[3]
• 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 [1]

Frickers patrons and clients include:

• The Sail Training Association (now the Tall Ships Youth Trust) [16]
• Caledonian MacBrayne [1][17]
• British Telecom (Marine) Ltd.[11][18]
• Cunard Line
• Yamaha [1]
• 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) [18]

Frickers work has been exhibited at:

• European Parliament, Brussels, May 2011 [2][3]
• Buckingham Palace
• London International Boat Show
• Royal Society of Marine Artists
• Maison de la Fontaine, City of Brest[4]
• Chester Town Hall, including a Civic Reception [13]
• La Mairie, L'ile sur Tarn, October, November 2007 [18]
• 1868 Restaurant, King David Street, Jerusalem, May 2007 [19]

Frickers' wine villages of France paintings have been exhibited at Gallerie Marin in Appledore, north Devon.[20]

Frickers work has appeared in:

• The Nelson Almanac edited by David Harris [21]
• Nelson's Ships by Peter Goodwin [9]
• Ships of Trafalgar by Peter Goodwin [7]
• Fighting Ships 1750-1850 by Sam Willis [22]

Frickers appeared in the 2010 TV documentary series, The Boats that Built Britain.[23]

• Gordon Frickers