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My Globe, You've Broken My Globe

My Globe, You’ve Broken My Globe

9×12″ oil on paper July 15, 2012 Buy original Buy prints The story that inspired this painting is from George MacDonald’s Phantastes. I would love to do a series of paintings on it, and this one only captures a portion of its spiritual magnitude. It has had a deep impact on my person and life: […]

An Indescribable Longing for Something

An Indescribably Longing for Something

11×14″ oil on canvas July 15, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: The sign or cause of coming death is an indescribable longing for something, they know not what, which seizes them, and drives them into solitude, consuming them within, till the body fails. When a youth and […]

God Sleeps Not When He Makes His Daughters Dream

God Sleeps Not When He Makes His Daughters Dream

15×17″ oil on canvas July 17, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from A Story of the Sea Shore by George MacDonald: God sleeps not when he makes His daughters dream. Shall not the morrow dawn at last which leads The maiden-ghost, confused and half-awake, Into the land whose shadows are our dreams?– […]

The Other is Able to Fulfill It

The Other Is Able to Fulfill It

11×14″ oil on canvas July 17, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Lilith by George MacDonald. They are the words of Hope to Vane: When a man dreams his own dream, He is the sport of his dream; When Another gives it him, That Other is able to fulfil it.

God, Not Gift

God, Not Gift

11×14″ oil on canvas July 18, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following poem, “God, Not Gift,” by George MacDonald: Gray clouds my heaven have covered o’er; My sea ebbs fast, no more to flow; Ghastly and dry, my desert shore Parched, bare, unsightly things doth show. ’Tis thou, Lord, cloudest up my sky; Stillest […]