Meet the team
With Maisie and Ness at the helm, Orange Beak Studio is also reliant on the skill, knowledge and experience of our talented associates and supporting team. Find out a little more about the folk behind the screen.
Maisie Paradise Shearring
Co-founder and tutor
Maisie Paradise Shearring is an international award-winning author-illustrator, as well as a founder and tutor at Orange Beak Studio.
Ness Wood
Co-founder and tutor
Ness Wood is an award-winning book designer and art director, and has worked for many major publishers designing children’s picture books and fiction.
Katie Harnett
Associate tutor
Katie Harnett is an award-winning author and illustrator, and an associate tutor at Orange Beak.
Mariesa Dulak
Associate tutor
Mariesa Dulak writes picture books and young fiction, and an Associate tutor at Orange Beak.
Tor Freeman is an author and illustrator of picture and chapter books, an Associate tutor for Orange Beak, and has been published in the UK and internationally during her career that spans over 20 years.
Tor Freeman
Associate tutor
Ramona Reihill is a previous children’s book editor, a facilitator and writing mentor with creative writing charity Fighting Words, and a tutor on the MA in Children’s Literature: Children’s Book Illustration course at Goldsmiths University of London.
Ramona Reihill
Associate tutor
Tony Lee
Administrator
Tony Lee is an experienced administrator having worked extensively in the academic and arts sectors.