Virginia "Jini" Mount-Hunter

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Jini loved art and was an accomplished artist and sculptor. She also enjoyed dancing, music, singing and being with her friends and family. She came from a family of musicians, artists, poets and readers of literature. Her gift of drawing was evident at a young age. Before graduating high school she was offered a graphic design scholarship from Dupont but turned it down hoping to become an actress. From her small town in Cherry Creek, New York she left after highschool. She worked various jobs including modelling and baby sitting in New York City. It was here she was found at Rockefeller Center ice skating and asked to join Holiday on Ice in her early twenties. She soon left for Rio de Janeiro and then toured the United States for seven years. Eventually she chose Miami Beach to live and met her husband, John Quin Machamer , father of her two children. Moving to Atlanta, Georgia Jini still pursued painting and became a site specific sculptor having made large installations still visible today. One is in the 200 Galleria Building Atlanta, Georgia. Jini eventually met John Livingston Hunter, her late husband. They spent over thirty years sailing, golfing, ballroom dancing and snow skiing into their eighties while living in Sarasota, Florida. Jini owned an art gallery here and studio called The Celery Barn in Towles Court Art District. She had gesture, painting workshops and exhibited other artists work on the walls. At eighty four she wrote a screenplay turned into a film based on her conversations she had with her three year old grandson called A Lot In Common. It was picked as a short film in the Sarasota Film Festival. A few years later she wrote a science fiction book called The Return. Women leaders from a more advanced civilization arrive on Earth to end war, murder and violence.

Jini spent her last four years in an assisted living community and briefly with her late husband John Hunter. A short one year and three months she lived in memory care before her passing after contracting Covid. Those last years she met a companion, Raymond Jennings, who we are grateful for in sharing time with Jini.

Jini was an inspiration to many. Her youthful spirit, radiating energy, creativity and warmth will always be with us.

Jini is survived by her loving child Lisa Simone Machamer and grandchildren Rachel Marie Machamer, Oisin and Kian Murphy.

She is preceded in death by parents Sadie and Gerald Mount and her son Lamont John Machamer

Jini's film. Her screenplay was about the relationship she had with her 4 yr old grandson. She wrote down all their conversations. Her screenplay was based on these conversations and the places they visited together.

https://youtu.be/bm6hCOXJhrU

https://www.yourobserver.com/article/jini-mount-painter-sculptor-ice-skater-and-actress

https://eu.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2011/10/30/grandmother-hopes-to-capture-special-time-in-film/64611539007/

Jini wrote a book after the film was made. She also owned and operated the Celery Barn which was a gallery and studio. She had gesture and painting workshops there and also used the wall space for other artists work. I am still hoping it can be made into a film!

https://www.glartent.com/US/Sarasota/218999428263784/The-Celery-Barn-Gallery

https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Return.html?

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Here is Jini drawing in her gallery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHP50leZU4&ab_channel=KennethDiffenderfer

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.palmsrobartsfuneralhome.com for the Mount-Hunter family.