1973: Jill Flink

Born in New Orleans in 1942, she was raised in Atlanta, where she went to high school. She studied at the Penland School of Crafts and the North Carolina State Architecture School, where she saw a woman in the back of a room, working on an etching press. She approached the woman and went on to do etchings, colographs, stone lithography, linocuts and woodcuts, specializing in flowers, tobacco barns and ‘scenery’, She studied with Walt Martin at Studio 4 in Atlanta and Joe Cox in North Carolina, She moved to Raleigh in 1966 to raise her three children and operated Jill Flink Fine Arts for 21 years until her divorce. She did framing, graduated from the Realtor Institute, began selling real estate, has been working as a realtor fulltime for decades and has not produced any prints but retains her machinery. She is also a licensed pilot who has owned two planes. Her works have been shown from Manchester, N.H, to Newport, VA.