George MacDonald
2012
He Was No More
14×17″ pastels on paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Somnium Mystici: A Microcosm in Terza Rima by George MacDonald: He was no more. I laid me down and wept; I dared not follow him, restrained the most By fear I should not see him if I leapt Out after […]
2012
Leave You! But I Am So Happy With You!
14×17″ watercolor on paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the passage below from Phantastes by George MacDonald. There are some discrepancies in this illustration. The woman is supposed to be old and wise with young eyes, a maternal and almost divine figure who gives the main character, Anodos, shelter and nurtures him back […]
2012
The Voice of the North Wind
9×12″ watercolor on paper August 1, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald: All the winds of heaven seemed to lay hold upon him, and buffet him hither and thither…. Her voice was like the bass of a deep organ, without the groan […]
2012
So Lies My Journey — On Into the Dark
18×24″ oil on canvas July 4, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Within and Without by George MacDonald: So lies my journey — on into the dark! Without my will I find myself alive, And must go forward…. But what I be, fifty summers hence? My life, my being, all that meaneth […]
2012
Take Me Like a Child
16×20″ oil on canvas July 8, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by “A Broken Prayer” from A Threefold Cord by George MacDonald, specifically the following passage: Oh, take me like a child, If thou hast made me for thyself, my God, And lead me up thy hills. I shall not fear, So thou wilt make me […]