Tim Flinn
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Tim was born in November 1939 in Detroit, Michigan into a family, which would eventually take him around the world before the age of eleven. He graduated from high school in Virginia and from college in Iowa. The Marine Corps filled in some of the gaps in his world tour by sending him to Asia. Tim eventually landed in Northeast Georgia where he and his wife, Louise, raised two daughters, Denise and Kelly.
Tim has always been a "maker", and he claims to have the scars, both physical and emotional to prove it. "If you have No training, what you make is crude, and open to criticism, but if you practice, you get better." says Tim. He practiced wood carving for 25 years, and in the process created a world in wood, additionally he created foundry "snap" patterns for cast iron doorstops of his own design. During a difficult period in his life he put down his carving knife and tools, and has yet to reconcile with them.
In 1995 while doing "nothing" creative a production turner from Hewell Pottery provoked him into trying the potter's wheel. In the summer of the same year he apprenticed with Todd and Eric Hewell at Crow Ridge Pottery, and perfected his skills. He built his own treadle wheel, and learned to make his own alkaline/ash based traditional glazes, and ash modified glazes. That same year he began turning vessels for face jugs and other whimsical objects. Over the past several years Tim's folk art pottery has been juried into
Virginia-Highland's, Summerfest, and the Kentuck Folk Arts Festival in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His work has also been seen and sold at the Outsider Art Fair, New York, Folk Fest, Atlanta, Habitat for Humanity, Atlanta, as well as other charitable and folk art venues including the American Folk Art Museum, New York. In spite of the fact that Tim would rather trade with other folk artists his work has shown up in various galleries in Atlanta, and across the country.
Our Art Gallery also has work by Reverend Howard Finster, Inez Nathaniel Walker, William Edmondson, Thornton Dial, Missionary Mary Proctor, Miz Thang, Nancy Valelly, R A Miller, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, folk pottery and all the great outsiders new or old.
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