Issue 31
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Featured Artist
Michael NoonanMy name is Michael Noonan. I come from Halifax (which is famous for its Piece Hall), West Yorkshire. I have a background in retail, food production and office work. I enjoy movies, walking in the countryside and listening to BBC Radio 3. I have always been interested in the arts. I attended art class at Calderdale College. I've had artworks published in literary journals in the US and UK, I 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 had an acrylic painting hung in Leeds City Art Gallery, after entering a competition they organized. I have sold artworks - acrylic paintings, black and white and coloured drawings, and reproductions – on Ebay. Aside from the fine arts, literature is my other main interest. My own painting can be seen on the cover of a volume of my short stories entitled SEVEN TALL TALES that is available at Amazon. And one of my drawings is on the cover of a novella I've written called Deadman's Treasure that can be seen HERE.
I have had stories entitled “The Stairway to Paradise” and “The Hold-up” published in the anthology volumes Even More Tonto Tales and Shades of Sentience, the latter an Australian publication. An article I wrote on the Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey has been published by Bridge Eight Magazine in Florida, and a fairy-tale I've written entitled “The Guardian of the Wood” has been published in the Fantasy Arts and Studies journal in France. I admire the great surrealist artists like Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, and Chirico; and my particular favourite is Yves Tanguy. I like the dreamlike quality of their work, and my own artworks have a tendency towards the offbeat and the unusual. |