FAITH FIRST: Joyce Girgenti's Art Ministry Expands From Augusta Area

By Bridgett Williams, bridgettw@nbcaugusta.com

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An artist from Evans whose work has been compared to Thomas Kinkade, but it's more than meets the eye.

Joyce Girgenti's brush strokes are inspired.

"Things are just revealed in my work and people get to see the miracles that come out in my painting. Maybe it was my hand that was used as a vessel,” she said.

Every intricate detail makes each painting unique, but the message is always the same, even if it takes a trained eye to see it.

“The way to find Jesus' name is you can see it around the rocks here in the shadows and once you fix your eyes on it, it will become very obvious to you, but if you didn't know it was there, you'd never see it,” she said pointing to the rocks at the bottom of her piece, “Rise Up O Nation and Follow Me.”

Joyce always incorporates faith into her art, but sometimes after the paint is dry, she says more appears on the canvas than she intended.

“After standing back and asking the Lord what to do with it, he showed me it's not a butterfly, it's an angel,” she said describing a fluffy pillow in her mother-son painting, “Momma’s Little Man.”

“A lady said this looks like an empty tomb with the stone rolled away and this looks like a lamb looking toward the tomb,” she explained on her “Legend of the Dogwood” piece.

A professional painter for 15-years, her gallery includes family, nature and patriotic themes, even Elvis' Graceland and the Augusta National.

Now that she and her husband are moving to the Chicago area, she's looking forward to more revelations.

“Moving north, I'll have new inspiration, I'm sure there's gonna be lots of snow and lots of inspiration as far as scenes there,” she said.

Joyce sees her works of art as a ministry and the impact they have are the fruits of her labor.

“To be able to share the miracle in my paintings, to let people see what God has done is probably the ultimate of all of what I do,” she said.

If you couldn't see the details in the paintings, you can take a closer look and read the stories behind the art on Joyce’s website:Inspired Brush Strokes

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Tuesday, Apr 8 at 12:53 AM connie dover wrote ...

I think this work,is of the finest,I've seen,It would be of your own benefit to check this fine art.It is beautiful. Happyday7th@yahoo.com

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