Jennifer (Tea Mistress) has been studying tea and practicing Gongfu tea ceremony since 2000. While living in Taiwan, she was introduced to tea culture through her tea aficionado Taiwanese ‘family’. She has auspiciously travelled through many of the world’s celebrated tea regions to study with tea masters and to meet farmers in order to procure exquisite teas. She co-founded Jade Spring Teas, the official teashop for the Journal of Chinese Medicine, and performs a contemporary version of tea ceremony – a memorable performance being in Chinese Architect Li Xiaodong’s installation at London’s Royal Academy of the Arts exhibition ‘Sensing Spaces’. She has been teaching since 2012, and has been inspired by the diversity of invitations including clandestine tearooms, multiple arts festivals and formal institutions. She holds an MA in Arts and Politics from Goldsmiths University, London and continues to write and research on how everyday rituals such as tea ceremony, are powerful tools for reclaiming our personal agency. In 2018 she moved to Salt Spring Island, Canada with her family and opened a tea school -a place to share in the ancient wisdom of a simple leaf.
