Mou Jinfen
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Jiangsu Provincial Master of Arts and Crafts
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Professor-level Senior Arts and Crafts Artist
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Director of the Yixing Branch of the Female Ceramic Artists Committee, China Ceramic Industry Association
Currently engaged in purple clay teapot creation at Yixing Purple Clay Craft Factory, under the tutelage of Mr. He Tingchu, Jiangsu Provincial Master of Arts and Crafts and Professor-level Senior Arts and Crafts Artist.
Born in Yixing, the pottery capital, in November 1963.
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1983: Studied in the Ceramics Department of the Central Academy of Arts & Design (now Tsinghua University Academy of Arts & Design), receiving meticulous guidance from professors including Yang Yongshan, Zhang Shouzhi, Wang Xiaolin, and Wang Jianzhong.
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1993: Named one of Yixing's "Top Ten Female Scientific and Technological Workers".
Her works, including "Line Rhythm Teapot", "Early Spring February Teapot", and "Stone Fun Paired Teapots", have won gold, silver, and bronze prizes in multiple national ceramic art creation competitions.
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"Continuous Spring Rain" won the 6th Golden Ceramics Award (Taiwan, China, 2000).
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"Striving Currents" won an Excellence Award in the 1st World Ceramic Art Grand Prix (South Korea, 2001).
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"Line Rhythm Teapot" was collected by the State Council of China in 2005.
Throughout her artistic career, her style embodies agility with serenity, delicacy with grandeur, and novelty with adherence to tradition.
Mou Jinfen's Purple Clay Teapot Work "Five Blessings at the Door"
Mou Jinfen's Purple Clay Teapot Work "Winter Plum Blossoms"
Mou Jinfen's Purple Clay Teapot Work "Dragon Head Flat Teapot"
"Flat Teapot" – A Purple Clay Teapot by Mou Jinfen
Mou Jinfen's Purple Clay Teapot Work "Small Stone Ladle"
