Tribute to Cecil Baugh
published: Friday | July 15, 2005

THE EDITOR, Sir:

THE ASSOCIATION of Jamaican Potters (AJP) regrets the passing of one of our honorary members, Cecil Baugh, Master Potter. He was the father of contemporary art pottery in Jamaica and one of our island's treasures. His pioneering work was the establishment of pottery on the Jamaican artistic landscape. As one of the founders, he was partly responsible for the establishment of the Jamaica School of Arts and Craft (now the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts) where he taught until 1974. To many of his students he was a father figure, who moulded and shaped lives as ably as he shaped the clay. Mr. Baugh will be remembered as a tutor, a guide, our mentor. He will be missed.

This year the AJP is celebrating its 16th anniversary and we have just concluded our annual exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery. Several of the members of the association who participated in the show were his students. These students have taught another generation who are now themselves graduates. This exhibition was a testimony of what Mr. Baugh had started and where Jamaican pottery is heading as the tradition of beautiful art works of clay continues, and tutoring and mentoring lives on.

Our sincere condolences to his family. The death of Mr. Baugh along with another of our senior members, Mr. Peter Cave, just over two months ago marks the passing of an era.

We are, etc.,

THE ASSOCIATION OF

JAMAICAN POTTERS

c/o 1 Arthur Wint Drive,

Kgn. 5