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Escoffery, Gloria
(b Gayle, St Mary, Jamaica, 22 Dec 1923). Jamaican painter and writer. She studied at McGill University, Montreal, and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She began painting in the 1940s and is best known for her depictions of life in rural Jamaica. Other works have surreal imagery and often include art historical and literary references. Typically, even her genre scenes have surreal overtones: slightly distorted figures appear alienated and isolated and are placed in desolate settings. In many works she combined figurative elements with abstract geometrical elements such as patterned borders or geometrically structured backgrounds. A fine colourist, she worked in oil and acrylic as well as watercolour and gouache. One of her masterworks is the five-panel Mirage (1987; Kingston, N.G.). She was perhaps Jamaica’s most important art critic and for many years wrote for Jamaica Journal.
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