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2012
The Sun, That Had Nursed Them So Long, Grew Weary of Loving
7×9 oil on canvas July 23, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: She watched them dying for many a day, Dropping from off the old trees away, One by one; or else in a shower Crowding over the withered flower For as if they had done some grievous […]
2012
She Looked a Wanderer
9×12″ watercolor on paper July 24, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from “The Homeless Ghost” by George MacDonald: He watched, but saw her speak to none, Saw no one speak to her; Like one decried, she stood alone, From the window did not stir; Her hair by a haunting gust […]
2012
Eye of the Child
9×12″ watercolor on paper July 24, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: But is it not rather that art rescues nature from the weary and sated regards of our senses, and the degrading injustice of our anxious everyday life, and, appealing to the imagination, which dwells apart, reveals […]
2012
Anxiety and Fear
14×17″ markers on paper July 25, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: Soon a vague sense of discomfort possessed me. With variations of relief, this gradually increased; as if some evil thing were wandering about in my neighbourhood, sometimes nearer and sometimes further off, but still […]
2012
A Blessing Like the Kiss of a Mother
9×12″ watercolor on paper July 29, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: I stood one moment and gazed into the heaving abyss beneath me; then plunged headlong into the mounting wave below. A blessing, like the kiss of a mother, seemed to alight on my soul; a calm, […]