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Room 2 The Christmas card collection. A series of paintings that were used for greeting cards for eight years, from 2015 to 2022. The first four cards were known known as ‘Bird Collection’, a series of paintings depicting British birds in a wintry background. The birds collection owes its inspiration to a Birds of FreedomContinue reading “Mike Rickett Gallery”

Room 1 This is the first series of paintings collectively called The Dance which went on exhibition earlier this year. All the work is for sale and signed on the reverse. If anyone is interested please email me at mikerickett007@yahoo.co.uk.

A new novel in in the Naomi Richards stories is published on Monday both as an EBook and in paperback. It is called ‘Walk a Crooked Road’ and is the third in the series. They will be the subject of a major marketing promotion on Amazon starting next week.

This will be one of two centrepieces at my forthcoming exhibition in the week after Easter when I will be mounting a themed show called ‘The Dance’. There will be around a dozen pictures exploring images of dancers, some partly abstract, some more figurative. The exhibition will be at the historic All Hallows church inContinue reading “‘The Dance’”

This work is perhaps the most challenging of my relief work. It is called ‘The Matrix’ and is a study of how shapes can represent space. It is inspired by the reliefs of English artist Ben Nicholson who experimented with shapes. He was influenced by Post-IMpressionism and Cubism and produced his first geometric and abstractContinue reading “A study of space and time”

This is Composition No.12. measuring 81cm x 48cm. It is inspired by that great Ukranian artist Kazimir Malevitch. He was an avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of abstract art in the 20th century. Born in Kiev to an ethnic Polish family, his conceptContinue reading “Art in the avante-garde”

Pursued by Shadows is the very first of the full-length Naomi stories and involves an international conspiracy. Get it now on Amazon: Ebook; ASIN: B0BG3FQGW8. Paperback; ASIN: B0BFW61D2S. Artist and mystic Naomi Richards has become something of a cult figure and in this story her abilities help her and Canadian friend Alex Nelson solve theContinue reading “Naomi’s thrilling debut”

Life in 1970 was completely different. So many things that we now take for granted were not there. No mobile phones. No interent. No DVDs. No streaming of anything. And nearly everyone smoked. It is against this background that A Walk on the Wilder Side is set. A thriller, wrapped in a mystery with theContinue reading “A new novel – set in 1970”