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Where'er Thou Art, All Things Are Glorified

Where’er Thou Art, All Things Are Glorified

8×10 oil on canvas July 23, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following section from the poem “Light” by George MacDonald: The trees lean toward thee, and, in loving pain, Keep turning still to see thee yet again; South sides of pines, haunted all day by thee, Bear violins that tremble humanly. And nothing in […]

The Sun, That Had Nursed Them So Long, Grew Weary of Loving

The Sun, That Had Nursed Them So Long, Grew Weary of Loving

7×9 oil on canvas July 23, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: She watched them dying for many a day, Dropping from off the old trees away, One by one; or else in a shower Crowding over the withered flower For as if they had done some grievous […]

Sweeper of the Floor

18×18″ oil on canvas July 30, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following poem, “Sweeper of the Floor”, by George MacDonald: Methought that in a solemn church I stood. Its marble acres, worn with knees and feet, Lay spread from door to door, from street to street. Midway the form hung high upon […]

I Am a Child Lost in a Mighty Forest

I Am A Child Lost in a Mighty Forest

16×16″ oil on canvas August 2, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following section of “A Broken Prayer” from A Threefold Cord by George MacDonald: O wilt thou hear me when I cry to thee? I am a child lost in a mighty forest; The air is thick with voices, and strange hands […]

Wrapped In Nothing Less Ethereal Than Slumber Itself

9×12″ oil on paper August 26, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from The Light Princess by George MacDonald: One fine summer day, a month after these her first adventures, during which time she had been very carefully watched, the princess was lying on the bed in the queen’s own chamber, fast asleep. […]