visual art by michael noonan

abstract design and A Classical Kaleidescope

Michael Noonan comes from Halifax, West Yorkshire and has a background in retail, food production and office work. He has always been interested in the arts and literature, and attended art class at Calderdale College. He has had artworks published in literary journals in the US and UK, including After the Pause, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, and Noctivigant Press. He won a runners up prize for a black and white line drawing in a competition run by Arts and Illustrators Magazine in the UK, and has had an acrylic painting hung in Leeds Art Gallery, after entering a competition they organized. His drawings, The Pedestrian Centre, and Fun Girl, for which he has been awarded certificates, were shown at the CityScapes and Figurative art exhibitions, run by the Light, Space and Time online art gallery in America; and can be seen on their youtube videos. He has sold artworks—acrylic paintings, black and white and colored drawings, and reproductions—on Ebay. His own painting can be seen on the cover of a volume of his short stories, entitled, SEVEN TALL TALES, that is available at Amazon, as a book or kindle. And one of his drawings is on the cover of a novella he has written, called Deadman's Treasure, that can be seen at the website, www.inkitt.com/stories/thrillers/662376.

He admires the great surrealist artists like Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, and Chirico; and his particular favourite is Yves Tanguy. He likes the dreamlike quality of their work, and his own artworks have a tendency towards the offbeat and the unusual.