{"id":114,"date":"2020-06-30T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2020-10-25T22:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T22:24:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/?page_id=114","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"114\" class=\"elementor elementor-114\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-31dbe53 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"31dbe53\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0258d2a\" data-id=\"0258d2a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-84b7331 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"84b7331\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"822\" src=\"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/alfpic.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/alfpic.jpg 599w, https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/alfpic-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0bff3c7\" data-id=\"0bff3c7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9061e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a9061e4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','sans-serif'; color: #767676;\">Alfie Joey is a cartoonist, children\u2019s illustrator, BBC radio presenter, an event host, a comedian, an actor &amp; keynote speaker! His diverse background (ex-trainee priest and Harrods toy demonstrator) is as broad as his artistic range. His story is told here in his\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HIlgL4A_kuc&amp;t=30s\"><span style=\"font-family: 'inherit','serif'; color: #d33d33;\">Ted Talk<\/span><\/a><\/p><p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','sans-serif'; color: #767676;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','sans-serif'; color: #767676;\">Alfie specialises in drawing caricatures, illustrations for children\u2019s books, and his well-known silhouette series, <i>Northern Skies<\/i>. He has designed cartoon magazine covers and, for a charity project, illustrated an Elmer elephant covered with cartoons of local TV personalities.\u00a0The son of a coal miner, hailing from County Durham, Alfie has painted many images of North East coal mines and miners. <\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','sans-serif'; color: #767676;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro','sans-serif'; color: #767676;\">#AlfArt is also available at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/northeastartcollective.co.uk\/product-category\/artists\/alfie-joey\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'inherit','serif'; color: #d33d33;\">The North East Art Collective<\/span><\/a><\/p><p>Alfie Joey&#8217;s story can be seen here in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HIlgL4A_kuc&amp;t=30s\">Ted Talk<\/a><\/p><p>Alf&#8217;s work is also available at <a href=\"https:\/\/northeastartcollective.co.uk\/product-category\/artists\/alfie-joey\/\">The North East Art Collective<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfie Joey is a cartoonist, children\u2019s illustrator, BBC radio presenter, an event host, a comedian, an actor &amp; keynote speaker! His diverse background (ex-trainee priest and Harrods toy demonstrator) is as broad as his artistic range. His story is told here in his&nbsp;Ted Talk Alfie specialises in drawing caricatures, illustrations for children\u2019s books, and his<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/?page_id=114\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}