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Biography
Sheila Flinn (1929 – 2018) was an English artist.

Early life
Born in 1929 in Brighton, Sussex, Flinn was a painter, engraver, printmaker and potter, and was known for her pictures of birds and animals – particularly dogs and cats.

Flinn exhibited linocuts at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1960 and some of her designs were used for greeting cards published by the Medici Society Ltd. in the 1970s.

Some of Flinn’s paintings have been collected by celebrities, including Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Marriage and children
Sheila Flinn married the chemist Martin Fleischmann in 1950, having met in 1945 at a local church fête. They lived in Tisbury, England and had three children: a son, Nicholas, and two daughters, Vanessa and Charlotte (died 2012).

Death
Flinn died in 2018.

Category:1929 births Category:2018 deaths Category:People from Brighton Category:English printmakers Category:English watercolourists Category:English women painters Category:Women printmakers Category:Women watercolorists Category:British printmakers Category:21st-century British women artists