Saving one animal won't change the world... But, surely the world will change
for that one animal..

 

 

We are a worldwide

Fellowship helping Animals

in Need through the sales of

Art and Art related items

 

Jill Flinn

What Inspires Jill Flinn to Help Animals:

Stories generated by the 100 (plus) animals we've taken in throughout the years are the main inspiration for my relief carved paintings. It has been said that artists should paint what they know. It's so rewarding to see that a living creature in need, beat the odds of being left in dire conditions only to find its health restored and living in a forever home. My work emphasizes the happier side of animal rescue from first hand experience.
Currently, we have 27 dogs from 15 years to 3 years living with us.

Biography

Jill Flinn
artist 1972-present
art educator 1975-1989
animal rescuer -always

From at least the age of 5, Jill created pieces of art for others. She knew it was something to be shared. Later on, as a teenager, she discovered that people would actually pay her for it. Her mother, however, thought it best that she get a college degree to teach art. So she did. She ended up moving to rural Missouri in the 1970's, where teachers were paid quite minimally. While doing art fairs to supplement her teaching salary, it became apparent that she could actually afford to do just her art. So, in 1989, she turned in her last lesson plan. Over a million miles, 43 states, and hundreds of shows later, she still feels blessed to be able to continue to pursue her profession as an artist.

Always a texture hound, Jill's mixed media evolved out of painting on canvases and boards with added textures of gel mediums, gesso, etc. Now she designs and sculpts her own very textural canvases in paperclay and paints them in acrylics.

Her new work, which is inspired by and benefits animal rescue, makes people smile and has won awards in national juried fairs since she introduced it in 1997.