Hi, I’m Jenna– a 26-year-old Artist, Writer, and Designer living on the West Coast of Florida where I was born and raised and seeking to know my Creator better through everything I create. I’m deeply inspired by the beauty in creation, the word of God, and all the ways I see Him reflected in the world, words, and people around me.

My own memory of my journey with creative expression begins at age 3 when in a moment of profound grief at the death of a loved one, I picked up the closest thing I could find– several white plastic bin lids– and began to draw my sorrow. Art continued to be a voice for all I found unspeakable from that moment on.

When I was 16, I was diagnosed with several chronic illnesses, one of which causes significant and debilitating chronic pain and mobility issues, and I began to paint to cope with my pain, sorrow, and loneliness. It became clear that every other path I had hoped for my life wasn’t going to be possible for me, and God as He endlessly pursued my heart made it clear I was called to make art and write.

Living in what I call “the waiting room”– isolated mostly to my 10 x 10 room or doctor’s offices for the next 5 years – I began to pursue God unlike I ever had before.

When I was up to it, I’d paint my prayers as worship and spend most of the rest of my time talking to Him or reading the Word. In the depths of the loneliest and most seemingly hopeless season of my life, I found Jesus to be my Closest Friend.

While I still face chronic pain and symptoms every day, by His grace I got to leave “the waiting room” and complete my Bachelor of Art in Visual Art with a Minor in Psychology from Southeastern University in 2023. After returning home from college, I’ve been working on writing my first book and slowly beginning my arts business Live Created, LLC; it has been a huge blessing to begin sharing my artwork and cards and all the stories of grace that went into the process with all of you.

My life is a living testimony of how God makes beauty from ashes and gives us joy for our mourning not just in spite of pain, but through and in the midst of it.

When I’m not writing, reading, creating or spending time with friends and family–my favorite place to be is on a blanket in the grass absorbed into the blue of the sky while talking to God and listening to the birds with my dog Lily nearby.