My
connection to Mo was as a student at Middlesex University in the dog days
of the ceramics course during the 90's. He was my personal tutor
for four years. Diminutive of stature and blinking in the
funny way he did, we all came to love him as a tutor.
Middlesex
then, had a reputation for slip casting and mold making,
and I was awful at both! Instead I had more of an interest in sculpture rather than functional tableware. Mo seemed to take an interest in my progress. He was very perceptive of individual
students' abilities and offered guidance without ever dominating the
discussion. He could be critical of course, but in such a way
that was constructive and not "dead ended."
At times he played down his reputation ,when we first year students twigged what a great artist he really was. He simply claimed that he was a big fish in a
small pond unlike his heroes - Giacometti or Modigliani. Modestly he said his income nearly all came from teaching. Yet here was a g…
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