Faith Crafter Magazine 2 2016 | Page 21

Grace Bailey - Joy - Her name is Joy. As you can see she has endured many adverse circumstances throughout her long life but the lifestyle of joy is written in the grooves on her face. Her lines echo smile or laughter lines despite her hardships. Grace Bailey is an Australian artist with many year’s experience as a mixed media painter focused mainly on larger scale portraits but more recently moving into prophetic art. Since completing an MA Visual and Performing Arts in 2002, the underlying themes in her work were passion and power which has now translated into worship painting, displaying the Father’s messages of love, power and passion. Her work is often large and colorful and her style would be classified as contemporary realism. She is almost finished a year - long assignment to paint live during worship each week for a year. During that time, she has commenced writing a book about worship art which should be finished by mid 2016. More examples of her work can be found at http://gracebailey.net/prophetic-painting/ or the Facebook page which chronicled some of the results of the year long challenge: https://www.facebook.com/52weeksofpropheticart/. Faith Crafter Mars 2016 www.faithcrafter.com 21