George MacDonald
2013
The Heart of the Laugh Was Love
7×9″ pen and pastel on paper October 6, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie: And her laugh was sweeter than song and wheel Sweeter than running brook and silver bell; Sweeter than joy itself, For the heart of the laugh was love.
2013
The Princess and the Primrose
9×12″ watercolor on paper September 26, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Princess and the Goblin: And now, in the lovely spring weather, Irene was out on the mountain the greater part of the day. In the warmer hollows there were lovely primroses, and not so many that she ever got tired […]
2013
The Low Dirge That Ever Rose and Died
8×10″ pen on paper September 26, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “A Story of the Sea Shore”: “Such frenzy slow invaded the poor girl. Not hers the hovering sense of marriage bells Tuning the air with fragrance of sweet sound; But the low dirge that ever rose and died, Recurring without […]
2013
Friendship in the Woods To Win
8×10″ oil painting on canvas paper September 12, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s poem “The Dweller’s Therein”: Down a warm alley, early in the year, Among the woods, with all the sunshine in And all the winds outside it, I begin To think that something gracious will appear, If anything of […]
2013
Shadow of Me
11×14″ watercolor on paper September 8, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Phantastes: “Shadow of me!” I said, “which art not me, but which representest thyself to me as me; here I may find a shadow of light which will devour thee, the shadow of darkness! Here I may find a blessing […]