Amy Grimes — Reflections — Nancy W. Carroll

It's my joy that one of my favorite artists, Amy Grimes, is also a friend and neighbor. To take a walk with her is to enter a more hopeful and magical world and see things differently.

Here is Amy's description for the painting above:

It's titled “Home” and it’s about entering into the total restoration of all things. Can you imagine? Where all darkness is left behind. It reminds me of the words at the end of C.S. Lewis’s story, The Last Battle, where he says, “All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”

This print (and three more that are meant to accompany it) tell the story of Creation, The Fall, Redemption, and Restoration. These are some of my favorite paintings I’ve ever had the joy to dream up and create. I was intimidated by the task, and I painted them slowly, but I’m so thankful for every minute I got to spend creating them.

Follow her on Instagram (trust me, you want to!) and explore her website for her books as well as her painting and prints. We need more Amys in these hard times.