AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
KEZ WICKHAM ST GEORGE Author, Poet, Artist
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ez has been placed on many walls globally by using her skills in the arts and her authorship. However, very close to her heart is mentoring new authors and artists, promoting kindness, mindfulness and motivation, to encourage others be the best in life you can be, while taking pleasure in watching others blossoming as they become strong in their chosen field and spread their wings and soar. Placing her empathy for other cultures from a magical multicultural childhood background in New Zealand and firmly believes it was the stories that abounded from her Irish /English parents and family who had married into the aboriginal tribe of Maori and Fijian Indian. When she was young, a Saturday night was nearly always at the local riverside, where a huge fire would be lit and the family or Whanau (family) would arrive to cook their dinner, tell stories, sing and play their guitars. Her young sleepy eyes closing to the sound of yet another tale of family folklore, wars won & lost or the songs of her ancestors. Kez has learnt to embrace change while assisting others, she practises commitment and consistency with a firm belief that to share your gifts, is encouraging others to build up their own strengths. She also practises one principle earnestly, that is by leading yourself first by placing your own values and principles first, then you can lead others. Today, Kez has been writing for the past twenty-plus years, including a career in Abstract art and Floral art. She is often requested to curate for art exhibitions as well as holding exhibitions of her own art. Within the past five years becoming involved in the ‘International Wearable arts Mandurah’ both as a competitor and in 2015-2018 their Creative Floral arts designer for the prize giving. Her career in writing began in 2000 when she wrote and published a Motivational
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Work Training Manual for three New Zealand training schools. In 2007 Kez wrote and self-published a children’s book ‘The Stone Birds’ for a local community in Northern Queensland, Australia. It was then Kez realised she had a story to tell about her travels and the people and characters she meets
along the way, her career as a published author began. Although Kez has never stopped writing in many genres, she always returns to the adventures and the wonderful folk she meets on the open road. Once that campfire is lit, it seems to be a beacon to others as they arrive from all walks of
