麦克·威尔克斯 1947年生于伦敦，是英国著名画家、畅销书作家。他13岁时获奖学金进入艺术学院学习。1970年，他成功创办了一家平面设计公司。五年后，他卖掉公司，全身心投入绘画与写作。1990年，英国广播电视台曾以他为主题拍摄过获奖纪录片。威尔克斯的绘画作品具有超现实的梦幻色彩，隐藏着令人不安、发人深思的主题。他举办过四次个人画展，其绘画作品是收藏家追逐的目标，很多作品已被纽约现代艺术博物馆及位于伦敦的英国维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆收藏。 《镜影》是威尔克斯“镜中境”三部曲的最后一部，梅尔和朋友们遇到了前所未有的困难，危险来自幻想世界，也来自自己内心深处……

Prepare to enter the Mirrorscape–a world where the bizarre is commonplace and logic makes no sense.

Melkin Womper is thrilled to escape his dull future as a village weaver and develop his artistic talent when he’s apprenticed to Ambrosius Blenk, one of Vlam’s most famous masters. Mel is especially excited by the colors that he’ll be able to use, since color is a very expensive Pleasure, strictly controlled by the sinister Fifth Mystery.

Mel can’t wait to enjoy the wonders of the grand city and begin his important work for Blenk. Instead, his dreams are quickly crushed by the reality of days filled with unimportant tasks and bullying by the other apprentices whose wealthy families have purchased their positions. Still, the promise of working under the great Blenk and studying his legendary paintings makes the misery bearable.

But when Mel and his new friends, Ludo and Wren, inadvertently stumble into a battle between the Fifth Mystery and the Rainbow Rebellion, an underground band fighting to make Pleasures affordable for all, the trio must step through Blenk’s paintings into the Mirrorscape. In this alternative world, the friends encounter monsters, mazes, talking houses, angels, and more.

Hugely original and deeply compelling, Mirrorscape is a thrilling adventure filled with the beautiful and the bizarre, the fantastical and the frightening, and entry into an incredibly visual, secret world, where the ultimate weapons are pigment, a paintbrush, and the power of imagination.