{"id":17,"date":"2022-03-29T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T10:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/dev\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T10:00:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<style id=\"kb-advancedgallery_573d13-52\">.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery ul.kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 {margin: -0px;}.kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item {padding:0px;}.kb-gallery-type-carousel.kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init {margin: 0 -0px;}.kb-gallery-type-carousel.kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init .kb-slide-item, .kb-gallery-type-fluidcarousel.kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init .kb-slide-item, .kb-gallery-type-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init:not(.slick-initialized) .kb-slide-item {padding: 4px 0px;}.kb-gallery-type-fluidcarousel.kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init.kb-carousel-mode-align-left .kb-slide-item {padding: 4px 0px 4px 0;}.kb-gallery-type-carousel.kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init .slick-prev {left:0px;}.kb-gallery-type-carousel.kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init .slick-next {right:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery.kb-gallery-wrap-id-_573d13-52 {margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery kb-gallery-wrap-id-_573d13-52\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-type-masonry kb-masonry-init kb-gallery-id-_573d13-52 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"1\" data-columns-xl=\"1\" data-columns-lg=\"1\" data-columns-md=\"1\" data-columns-sm=\"1\" data-columns-xs=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:684px\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:63.74269005847953%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/82ab-yellow-684.jpg\" width=\"684\" height=\"436\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/82ab-yellow-684.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/82ab-yellow-684.jpg\" data-id=\"351\" data-link=\"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/dev\/index.php\/about\/82ab-yellow-684\/\" class=\"wp-image-351undefined\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/82ab-yellow-684.jpg 684w, https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/82ab-yellow-684-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/82ab-yellow-684-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">SPACE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello I\u2019m Gay Wegerif &nbsp; I write and illustrate picture books for very young children &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture is me on the Penwith moors, by husband Pete, with our dog Ruffy. &nbsp; We are both artists, we live in Cornwall. &nbsp;Our two daughters are grown up and we have a grandson. &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born in Holland in 1957, my parents were both South African. &nbsp; Since I was 5, I\u2019ve lived in the UK,&nbsp;my mum was a single mum and I have a brother. &nbsp; <br>Mum was also an artist. Gran came to live with us from Africa. &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all loved books. I loved the pictures. There was Hermitage paintings, Paul Klee, embroidery books, National Geographic magazines, and more. &nbsp; I studied painting at Bristol. Then moved to London and studied writing for children and illustration.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, we had a young family, were building our home (literally) and also setting up a career making neon and lighting for Pete.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much later, when the family had grown and flown it was possible to pursue my enthusiasm for picture books.&nbsp;As our youngest left to study, I enrolled too for an MA in authorial illustration at Falmouth School of Art.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the contacts with the course and meeting lovely Benoit Jacques I was introduced to the amazing world of French children\u2019s publishing.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a pleasure and a privilege to be published by Editions MeMo &#8211; a million thanks to them. &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favourite picture books?&nbsp; &nbsp; <br>When I was young, I loved Little Grey Rabbit.&nbsp; <br>When my children were young we liked Mr Magnolia and Brown bear brown bear.&nbsp; <br>Our grandson likes all the books with enjoyable sounds. &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days I cherish quite different books. These 3 are special ones to me &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter by Aoi Huber-Kono &nbsp; <br>Magic Dress by Kayako Nishimaki &nbsp; <br>Kole\u010dko by Zdenek Seydl &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and many many more &#8211; Thank you so much, world, for all the wonderful books &nbsp; &nbsp; <br><br>Art that inspires me? &nbsp; <br>I mention just a few&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medieval textiles &nbsp; <br>Inuit everything &nbsp; <br>Pottery &#8211; Mediterranean and Mimbres &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michio Mado poems &nbsp; <br>Bryan Pearce paintings&nbsp; <br>Craigie Aitchison\u2019s painting of liquorice allsorts &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a short list of things I like a lot:&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lightness &nbsp; <br>Open-ness &nbsp; <br>Simplicity &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wildlife in the wild &nbsp; <br>Sunshine and spring &nbsp; <br>Unexpected, funny things&nbsp; <br>and of course\u2026.. my family! &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPACE Hello I\u2019m Gay Wegerif &nbsp; I write and illustrate picture books for very young children &nbsp; &nbsp; The picture is me on the Penwith moors, by husband Pete, with our dog Ruffy. &nbsp; We are both artists, we live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wegerif.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}