Artist: Jeanette Lee Adams
Title: If I May Touch
Medium: Oil and charcoal on linen
Unframed Dimensions: 36 x 36 inches
Framed Dimensions: 37 x 37 inches
Price: $3600
Artist Statement: This painting depicts the woman with an issue of blood reaching through the crowd to touch the hem of Christ’s garment. I was drawn to the quiet desperation and faith in that moment—after years of suffering, isolation, and physical weakness, she moved toward healing with the smallest act of hope. I painted this work while experiencing my own migraine pain which made the story feel deeply personal. The red throughout the composition symbolizes both blood and pain, while the fractured, crowded atmosphere reflects physical suffering and emotional exhaustion. Her reaching became a meditation on faith in the midst of bodily affliction—the belief that even the smallest contact with the Savior can make us whole.
Artist Bio: Jeanette Lee Adams is a figurative painter whose work explores faith, suffering, spiritual refinement, and the sacred dignity of women. Drawing from scripture, personal reflection, and lived experience, her paintings often focus on intimate moments of encounter between Christ and individuals seeking healing, mercy, or transformation.
Her work is particularly interested in the spiritual significance of embodied suffering and the quiet strength found in women’s devotion, endurance, and intercession. Through layered, symbolic compositions, she seeks to create spaces where viewers can contemplate grace, covenant, and the deeply personal nature of divine healing.
