Jada Griffin is an American-born and British-educated painter and writer. She lives and works in Northern New Mexico on the famous High Road to Taos near Santa Fe. Her works, particularly her paintings of women, are sold internationally and she is a contributing writer to Portland Interview magazine and Navajo Times. Having studied at Sotheby Parke-Bernet in London, Jada has a background, not only in studio painting, but in art history and interior design. In addition to the United States and Great Britain, she has lived in Chile, Algeria, Switzerland, Spain and France and speaks three languages - English, Spanish and French. Jada loves dancing and reading about the history of intellectuals on the Left Bank in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century. For ten years she owned her own studio and gallery in Portland, Oregon’s legendary Pearl District, which was named in the early 1980s by her late partner, Thomas Paul Augustine. USA Today rated her gallery the “Best Gallery in an arts district outside of New York City.” The Oregonian newspaper stated, “Jada Griffin is gaining renown as one of the best American abstract expressionist painters.” More than anything, Jada Griffin’s paintings are an affirmation of personal and collective freedom, freedom centered in a generosity, respect and tenderness toward all existence that only true liberty brings.
