2012 December
2012
The Library and the Glow of the Burning Spirit Within
14×17″ pastels on paper July 16, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: Over some parts of the library, descended curtains of silk of various dyes, none of which I ever saw lifted while I was there; and I felt somehow that it would be presumptuous in me to […]
2012
God Sleeps Not When He Makes His Daughters Dream
15×17″ oil on canvas July 17, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from A Story of the Sea Shore by George MacDonald: God sleeps not when he makes His daughters dream. Shall not the morrow dawn at last which leads The maiden-ghost, confused and half-awake, Into the land whose shadows are our dreams?– […]
2012
The Other Is Able to Fulfill It
11×14″ oil on canvas July 17, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Lilith by George MacDonald. They are the words of Hope to Vane: When a man dreams his own dream, He is the sport of his dream; When Another gives it him, That Other is able to fulfil it.
2012
The Beauty of the Shadows Ceased to Delight Them
9×12″ charcoal and pastels on paper July 18, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from The Golden Key by George MacDonald: As evening drew on, the shadows fell deeper and rose higher. At length they reached a place where they rose above their heads, and made all dark around them. Then they took […]
2012
God, Not Gift
11×14″ oil on canvas July 18, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following poem, “God, Not Gift,” by George MacDonald: Gray clouds my heaven have covered o’er; My sea ebbs fast, no more to flow; Ghastly and dry, my desert shore Parched, bare, unsightly things doth show. ’Tis thou, Lord, cloudest up my sky; Stillest […]