North Herts Museum has recently been donated four pots by Letchworth potter Abdo Nagi.
Abdo Nagi was born in 1941 into a large family in Shohali, a remote village in North Yemen.
His father, a peasant farmer and locksmith (working in wood), had Syrian origins and his mother Turkish origins. From the age of eight he was sent out onto the mountains as a goatherd, and while alone on the mountains he dreamed of foreign lands.
At the age of 12 he left home and travelled to the British Colony of Aden where he worked across the next 12 years for a series of British families. During this period he taught himself English.
In 1967, Abdo accompanied his employer on the last British flight out of the area, which was soon to become the People's Republic of South Yemen. His employer brought him to Letchworth Garden City where he settled.
Abdo worked as the Art Technician at North Herts College and pursued his love of working in clay. Abdo exhibited numerous times at Letchworth and Hitchin museums and had a growing reputation at the time of his death in 2001, with his works sold in sale rooms such as Bonhams.
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