 Herickx won a scholarship in 1914 to study under William Bloye at the Birmingham School of Art, completing his studies after World War I.He assisted Bloye on projects such as the 1933 carvings of the church of St. Francis of Assisi, Bournville, and executed his own commissions, such as the carvings around the entrance to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, from his studio in Moseley.He taught at Walsall College of Art from 1945 until his death.