George MacDonald

Hope Beat Violently in My Heart

Hope Beat Violently in My Heart

11×14″ oil on canvas September 7, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by a passage in Phantastes by George MacDonald, from which the title takes its name.

May the World Be Brighter

May the World be Brighter

9×12″ pastels and marker on paper December 2, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: I have a strange feeling sometimes, that I am a ghost, sent into the world to minister to my fellowmen, or, to repair wrongs I have already done. May the world be brighter for […]

To See, To Know, To Understand, To Love

To See, To Know, To Understand, To Love

7×9″ pen on paper September 2, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following line from “The Consuming Fire” from George MacDonald’s Unspoken Sermons: To see a truth, to know what it is, to understand it, and to love it, are all one.

A Long Way We Have Come, Farther Yet We Must Roam

A Long Way We Have Come, Farther Yet We Must Roam

16×16″ oil on canvas September 1, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following stanzas from “The Hills” by George MacDonald: “And in my wanderings I did meet Another searching too: The dawning hope, the shared quest Our thoughts together drew; Fearless she laid her hand in mine Because her heart was true. She […]

Let Us Then Dare Something

Let Us Then Dare Something

9×12″ oil on paper September 1, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from “The Higher Faith in George MacDonald’s Unspoken Sermons: Let us then dare something. Let us not always be unbelieving children. . . . They are blessed to whom wonder is not a fable, to whom a mystery is not a […]