Jady Griffin Art

07/24/2022

This piece is called "you're going to be okay."
There is a lonely in depression that has been hard to understand for me. I have amazing friends and a God who will never leave me not forsake me. Yet there are moments, where in the presence of all of that, the fight is to actually to remember it.

My wife can see the fight in my eyes. And will often grab my hand and say "It's going to be okay." That has become my mantra for me that leads me back to my ever present help in times of trouble.

07/24/2022

See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

07/23/2022

This your I have become familar with the collision of grief and hope. So much to rejoice in and so much to cry over. This painting is the first in a series of works exploring where pain and victor meer. THe place where, if we are honest we all live. The place of the almost not yet. The place of need and breakthrough. Welcome to TEARS THAT LEAD TO JOY.

07/23/2022

Grief is complex. It's painful, in away it can also be beautiful.

07/23/2022

When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:

“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”[b]
“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”

“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

Luke 19:37-40

07/23/2022

Psalm 23
A psalm of David.
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

07/23/2022

07/23/2022

When I was in the 3rd grade I had a moment with my mom that changed everything. I was never good at school, it didn't come easy to me ever. And night I had gone to bed and then my mom came into my room turned on the light and said come with me. I walk into the kitchen to find a table cover in poster boards that had fractions and gramer rules and all the things that didn't make since to me writen all over them and bowls of paint. And then she said a "paint over it." Take all you can't understand and express what you do understand on top of it. This piece is that moment. The Genesis, the start. A dark yet warm expression.

07/23/2022