My friend Glynn Hugo, who has died aged 89, created pottery he thought of as sculpture as much as tableware. His parents joked that he was making Plasticine pots in his pram. Whatever the shape and delicacy of his mugs, cups, vases, bowls and coffee pots, they were unmistakably Hugo-ish.
The only child of Mary (nee Lees) and Percy Hugo, he grew up in a working-class home in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The Hugos had traditionally been coopers and barrel-makers and his father worked in a local brewery, but after winning a scholarship to the town’s grammar school, Glynn moved in a different direction. At the Burton School of Art he took up ceramics and, after getting his NDD (National Diploma in Design) and a teaching certificate, he taught pottery there for over a decade.
