Ma Lou (Mrs. Louisa Jones) 1913-1992 was brought up in Spanish Town, Jamaica among potters (her mother and aunts were all potters) whose clay practice connected to African hand building traditions: coiling up forms in a ceramic saucer or keke; building up while walking around the pot, & eventually firing in an open circular pit. Mrs. Jones worked in clay most of her life, stopping briefly between 1954 and 1957. She picked it up again and kept producing until she passed in 1992. Her daughter, Marlene “Munchie” Roden continued making pots in the same tradition.
(See: Vincentelli, Moira. Women Potters: Transforming Traditions. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 125-30)
* Image of Ma Lou reproduced from Baugh’s & Tanna’s, Baugh; Jamaica's Master Potter.
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