George MacDonald
2013
A Shadowy Fear, Long Haunting the Horizon of Her Soul
8×10″ pen and colored pencil on paper June 11, 2012 Buy prints at https://www.etsy.com/listing/125817893/a-shadowy-fear-long-haunting-the-horizon Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Story of the Sea Shore”: Months passed; he came not; and a shadowy fear, Long haunting the horizon of her soul, In deeper gloom and sharper form drew nigh; And growing in bulk, […]
2013
Never For Me Did She Neglect the Smallest Child
8×10″ marker and pastel on paper January 19, 2013 Purchase original Purchase prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Lilith: What I did or thought, I referred constantly to her, and rejoiced to believe that, while doing her work in absolute independence, she was most at home by my side. Never for me […]
2013
If She Is Tired Inside, Everything Will Tire Her
8×10″ pen and chalk pastels on paper January 16, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Adela Cathecart: “What has she to tire her?” “If she is tired inside first, everything will tire her.”
2013
My Spirit’s Bride
8×10″ charcoal on paper December 7, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Diary of an Soul by George MacDonald: Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine; And thou […]
2013
Keep Thou Thy Soul Translucent
9×12″ watercolor on paper January 9, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Inspired the following passage from George MacDonald’s Robert Falconer: Men call the shadow, thrown upon the universe where their own dusky souls come between it and the eternal sun, ‘life’, and then mourn that it should be less bright than the hopes of their […]