About Jennie
Jennie Maizels is a world-renowned, award-winning illustrator of a multitude of pop-up books, who studied illustration at Central Saint Martins School of Art, graduating in 1993.
Publishing
Collaborating with the much-treasured children’s author Kate Petty, Jennie produced eight highly detailed pop-up books. Their first book, The Great Grammarwas nominated for a Nibby and was next to Steven King in the top 10 bestseller list for several weeks. The Global Garden book was the 2007 winner of the Adventist prize for science.
Jennie has also collaborated with The Reduced Shakespeare Company on their fabulously popular Pop-up Shakespeare.
Pop-up London (written and illustrated by Jennie) is her current bestseller, stocked in most museums and airports, as is her Pop-up New York Book
Among other things
Jennie successfully launched a range of patches called ‘Clothes Plasters’, starting a huge trend and stocked everywhere from Top Shop to Liberty and even Buckingham Palace.
Illustration commissions include the windows of Harvey Nichols for London Fashion week, Waterstones Christmas identity and pop-up corporate cards for the likes of No.1 World Trade Centre and The Ghery Building, New York.
The MEthod
After teaching art in universities for many years, Jennie has put her methods into practice, believing that anyone can paint.
‘The Maizels Method’ is also the subject of a research project at the University of Portsmouth.
Using the method, Jennie runs in-person workshops at Maggie’s Cancer Support Centre Southampton and in Queen Alexandra hospital Portsmouth Macmillan’s Centre.
Other centres subscribing to her method facilitator free include homeless shelters, prisons, hospital wards and further cancer support centres.
