Jennie produces an ever increasing range of very functional pottery. Her aim is to make beautiful pottery that works and that feels good to use.
She makes and decorates each piece individually using a variety of different techniques. Her Mishima pieces in this exhibition have an intricate slip inlay. Mishima originated in Japan and Korea and is "the inlaying of a contrasting into a pattern that has been impressed, stamped or carved into the clay, and then scraping the surface back flush, leaving the coloured slip in the pattern."
For Jennie once the pot has been thrown and turned she uses a small comb to incise the fine lines. Then several layers of a dark blue/black slip are applied into the grooves over the whole pot, when the slip has dried a little she scrapes it all off so that the slip just remains in the grooves. Once completely dried the post are biscuits fired, glazed with Celadon glaze on the body and a Tenmoku glaze on the inside and rim and then fired in a gas kiln to 1280'c.