Phillida Gili

Phillida Gili is a British children's book illustrator. One of her best-known works is a 1992 pop-up version of The Nutcracker.[1][2]

Biography

Phillida Gili was born to Reynolds Stone, a wood engraver, engraver, designer, typographer and painter, and the photographer Janet Woods.[3][4][5] She won a prize from the Young Elizabethan magazine as a child for drawing a human foot from the perspective of an ant.[6] She studied at the St Martin's School of Art, telling UK daily newspaper The Guardian in March 2015 that Fritz Wegner, a visiting lecturer at St Martin’s, "gave me the first words of encouragement I ever received at art school".[7]

She was married to filmmaker Jonathan Gili (1943-2004), with whom she has three children.[4] She lives in London.

Work

Gili's work includes illustrating and sometimes writing children's books. Some of her works include Sir John Betjeman's Archie and the Strict Baptists, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, picture books by Nina Bawden and Jenny Nimmo, a pop-up version of Cinderella, and The Lost Ears.[8][9][10][11] She has also illustrated for the National Trust, for advertising and on stationery.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Phillida Gili". Scholastic Teachers.
  2. ↑ Wilgress], [text ... by Jenni Fleetwood] ; illustrated by Phillida Gili ; [paper engineering by Paul (1992). The Nutcracker: a pop-up book (1st American ed.). [New York]: HarperCollins. ISBN 0694004146.
  3. ↑ "Contact the estate of Reynolds and Janet Stone". Reynolds and Janet Stone. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 O'Connor, Patrick. "Jonathan Gili obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  5. ↑ Grove, Valerie (2011). So much to tell: the biography of Kaye Webb. p. 39. ISBN 9780670918850.
  6. ↑ Powers, Alan (24 March 2015). "Fritz Wegner obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Gili, Phillida; Betjeman, John (1977). Archie and the Strict Baptists. London: J. Murray. ISBN 0719534291.
  8. ↑ Gili, Phillida (2006). Cinderella: a pop-up book. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747579911.
  9. ↑ Gili, Phillida (1984). Fanny & Charles : a regency escapade or, the trick that went wrong (1st American ed.). New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0670306975.
  10. ↑ Gili, Phillida (2006). The lost ears (25th Anniversary ed.). [London]: Boxer Books. ISBN 1905417187.
  11. ↑ "Phillida Gili".


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