Jennie originally trained in Swansea and then undertook a short apprenticeship in the village of La Borne in France, where she started making Reduction Fired Stoneware.

In 1993, she set up her own workshop in Surrey, developing her "Domestic Range" of Tin Glazed blue and white chequered work and her distinctive "Mishima Range".

Jennie moved to Project Workshops in Hampshire in 2001, exhibits extensively and has work in public and private collections throughout Britain and abroad.