Maisie Paradise Shearring
Co-Founder and Tutor
Maisie Paradise Shearring is an international award-winning author-illustrator. In 2015, she graduated from Cambridge School of Art, where she gained a distinction and also received the Ronald Searle Prize for Creativity. In April of the same year, Maisie won the International Award for Illustration at Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
Maisie’s picture books include Anna and Otis and I’m Actually Really-Grown Up Now, both published by Two Hoots. Anna and Otis was nominated by IBBY for the 2019 Bratislava Biennial of Illustration. Maisie has recently illustrated The Girl Who Noticed Everything, a picture book written by Jane Porter and published by Walker Books. It follows on from The Boy Who Loved Everyone (also written by Jane Porter), which won the Little Rebels Award in 2020 and a Christopher Award in 2022.
Maisie’s most recent picture book is Two People Can published by HarperCollins imprint Kumusha Books.
Alongside co-founding and tutoring at Orange Beak Studio, Maisie has post-graduate lecturing experience, having worked on the MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, and has also been a mentor for Picture Hooks.
