George MacDonald
2013
Mothers Are Worth Fighting For
11×14″ acrylic on canvas February 6, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Title take from a line in George MacDonald’s Lilith.
2013
God Sleeps Not When He Makes His Daughters Dream
8×10″ markers and pastels on paper February 13, 2013 Title inspired by a passage in “A Story of the Sea Shore” by George MacDonald.
2013
Waking Feelings Such As One Never Had Before
22×28″ oil on canvas February 16, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Lilith: “The mere words, however, woke in me feelings which to describe was, from their strangeness, impossible. Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in […]
2013
Up the Hills Must Homeward Be
8×10″ pen and pastel on paper March 16, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s poem “The Hills”: “She was not born among the hills, Yet on each mountain face A something known her inward eye By inborn light can trace; For up the hills must homeward be, Though no one knows the […]
2013
That Thou Dost Know the Darkness, Proves the Light
8×10″ pastels on paper February 2, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from Within and Without by George MacDonald: And should the twilight darken into night, And sorrow grow to anguish, be thou strong; Thou art in God, and nothing can go wrong Which a fresh life-pulse cannot set aright. That thou dost know the […]