George MacDonald
2013
Like a Book Which a Boy Reads By Stealth
7×9″ pen on paper August 23, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Thomas Wingfold, Curate: “He was still studying her like a book which a boy reads by stealth….”
2013
A Heart Bereft
9×12″ watercolor on paper July 28, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “The Old Garden,” from “A Threefold Cord”: Her look is hopeless yet eager, The look of a heart bereft.
2013
I Follow As I Can
7×9″ oil on canvas July 24, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Written For One in Sore Pain”: I were still a wandering sheep But for thee, O Shepherd-man! Following now, I faint, I weep, Yet I follow as I can!
2013
For Though He Slay Me, I Will Trust In God
8×10″ pen and colored pencil on paper June 2, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Story of a Sea Shore”: Dome up, O heaven, yet higher o’er my head! Back, back, horizon; widen out my world! Rush in, O fathomless sea of the Unknown! For, though He slay me, I […]
2013
Going Down to Lower Things With Lofty Cares
8×10″ pen and colored pencil on paper June 2, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “A Hidden Life”: She laboured as before; though when she would, And Nature urged not, she, with privilege, Would spare from hours of toil–read in her room, Or wander through the moorland to the hills; […]