George MacDonald
2013
But When I Find
8×10″ oil on canvas panel September 2, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from “Love’s Ordeal” by George MacDonald: But when I find a heart whose blood is wine; — Whose faith lights up the cold brain’s passionless hour; Whose love, like unborn rose-bud, will not pine, But waits the sun […]
2013
High-Parent Love
8×10″ watercolor on paper July 13, 2012 Buy original Buy print Inspired by the following lines from Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald: What has been, shall not only be, but is. The hues of dreamland, strange and sweet and tender Are but hint-shadows of full many a splendor Which the high Parent-love […]
2013
I Ask Not Whither Lord, For I Know It Must Be On
8×10″ pencil on paper July 28, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following lines from Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald: I ask not whither, Lord. For I know it must be on.
2013
Ah, God! Why Are Our Souls, Lone Helpless Seas
11×14″ oil on canvas July 1, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from A Story of the Sea Shore by George MacDonald: Ah, God! why are our souls, lone helpless seas, Tortured with such immitigable storm? What is this love, that now on angel wing Sweeps us amid the stars in […]
2013
Trust the Oak
9×12″ watercolor on paper September 15, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: “Trust the Oak,” said she; “trust the Oak, and the Elm, and the great Beech. Take care of the Birch, for though she is honest, she is too young not to be changeable.”