About

Jennie studied illustration at Central St Martins School of Art, graduating in 1994.

Collaborating with the renowned children’s author Kate Petty, Jennie produced eight highly detailed pop up books. Their first book, The Great Grammar book was 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 book, 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 the No.1 World Trade Centre and The Ghery Building New York.

In 2015 Jennie started workshops trialling her methods now known as ‘The Maizels Method’. The Method is currently part of a major research project at the university of Winchester.

Jennie runs well-being workshops every Friday for Maggie’s Cancer Support Centre Southampton using ‘The Maizels Method’ with plans to expand to a vast number of other organisations that would benefit from using her methods..

An experienced public speaker (TedX and countless conferences and events) Jennie also has in front of camera skills and is an accomplished presenter.