My name is Virginia (Gina) Gifford. I have always loved art, entrepreneurship and the Catholic Church, but I never knew how these three things were going to so profoundly come together in my life.

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From a young age I was captivated by the intricate detail, lavish splendor and rich beauty of the Catholic Churches that I visited. I pondered the lives, personalities, heroic boldness and selfless love of Christ, His Mother and the Saints that towered over me in artwork and statues. 

 

Over the course of my life I occasionally painted statues here and there, and I really enjoyed it. I found myself losing track of hours and sometimes days as I began immersing myself into my work...and then that's when it happened... statues just started showing up.

 

It finally got to a point where I had to make a decision: Do I continue to occasionally dabble in statue work  or do I invest myself fully into what I love?

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I never thought in my wildest dreams that the statues of Jesus, Mary and the Saints that I quietly adored and looked up to as a child would be coming to me for repair and a fresh new look.

 

Painting and restoring religious statues is a rare profession and service that I am both honored and humbled to be called to.

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