About

  Deidra Ricketts is an American artist raised in Georgia. She received her Bachelors in Art in 2017 from the University of North Georgia. Since  getting her undergraduate degree, Deidra has lived and worked abroad in Tokyo, Japan, before returning to Georgia to pursue her passion for art.

From a young age, Deidra enjoyed art in all forms drawing inspiration from the natural world in fantastical ways. As she grew from a young artist she took her adventurous imagination into the world of mixed media to explore and push the boundaries of the magic she desired to capture within her Art. She primarily works with a mixture of resin, acrylic paints, powder pigments, and alcohol inks to create pieces which she calls, “Fantasy Portals.” Deidra creates these portals as an escapism for her viewer to be transported to seemingly familiar yet unnatural places with stories and creatures woven into them. Her work heavily draws on her love of fantasy novels, flora and fauna, and the exploration of the human condition through anthropomorphic characters.