Fiction for tomorrow

Room 4

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 Freedom intervention in Liverpool in 2010 in which pictures of three British birds ‘flew’ all over the world.

The other four were known as the ‘Churches Collection’, depicting famous Liverpool churches, again in a winter setting.

All the art is for sale. Please email me at mikerickett007@yahoo.co.uk

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 in Allerton, south Liverpool

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 abstract reliefs in 1933.

In this worek the areas of different depths define actual space. Colour was reduced to just white or black with the occasipnal red line to achieve a sense of purity. Depth and plain colour make the play of light and shadow an intrinsic part of the work.

Strangely, it is the most viewed work whenever it is included in exhibitions. I am toying with the idea of entering for the JOhn Moores painting prize this year

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 concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access “the supremacy of pure feeling” and spirituality. Malevich is also considered to be part of the Ukrainian avant-garde (together with Alexander Archipenko, Sonia Delaunay, Aleksandra Ekster, and David Burliuk) that was shaped by Ukrainian-born artists who worked first in Ukraine and later over a geographical span between Europe and America.

Early on, Malevich worked in a variety of styles, quickly assimilating the movements of Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism, and after visiting Paris in 1912, Cubism. Gradually simplifying his style, he developed an approach with key works consisting of pure geometric forms and their relationships to one another, set against minimal grounds.

This painting is for sale. Sensible offers only please to mikerickett007@yahoo.co.uk. Buyers must be prepared to collect or arrange shipment.

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 the riddle of missing deadly research files that could destroy civilisation.

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 the central character, Keith Wilder, the news editor of a newsagency in St Helens, Lancashire.

The story is also partly auto-biographical in that many of the people and events were real. So, why don’t you take a step on the Wider Side and go to Amazon where you will find it in paperback or as a eBook.

Enjoy!