Jamaican artist gloria escoffery biography of michael

One of Gloria Escoffery's ealier works, titled "Nommo".

VETERAN Jamaican artist Gloria Escoffery, O.D., is dead. She died at her home in Brown's Town, St. Ann, on April 24 after ailing for some time.

She was 79 years old.

One of the few local artists to have developed outside of the Kingston orbit, Ms. Escoffery (affectionately called "Ms. G"), was also a seasoned poet, teacher, freelance journalist and member of the National Gallery of Jamaica.

She was born at Gayle, St.

Mary, on December 22, 1923, daughter of the late Dr. William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia.

Ms. Escoffery attended St. Hilda's High School (Jamaica Scholar 1942), and later studied at McGill University in Canada, Slade School of Fine Arts in England, and the University of the West Indies's School of Education.

She worked for a while in advertising until 1947 when she left to work with the Institute of Jamaica.

Neither of these occupations was sufficiently fulfilling; so when