9×12″ oil on paper August 30, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by a fairy tale by George MacDonald, in which the female character, Nycteris, unknowingly grows up in a dark cavern, never seeing light beyond a dim globe-shaped lamp. At this point in the story, at the age of 16, she accidentally ventures beyond the cave, […]

8×10 oil on canvas August 30, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from The Golden Key by George MacDonald: They stood on the level of the raging sea, looking towards the east. Across the waste of waters, against the bosom of a fierce black cloud, stood the foot of a rainbow, glowing in […]

16×16″ oil on canvas August 30, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Lilith by George MacDonald: The grass grew sweeter and its flowers more lovely and various as we went; the trees grew larger, and the wind fuller of messages.

18×24″ oil on canvas July 4, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Within and Without by George MacDonald: So lies my journey — on into the dark! Without my will I find myself alive, And must go forward…. But what I be, fifty summers hence? My life, my being, all that meaneth […]

16×20″ oil on canvas July 8, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by “A Broken Prayer” from A Threefold Cord by George MacDonald, specifically the following passage: Oh, take me like a child, If thou hast made me for thyself, my God, And lead me up thy hills. I shall not fear, So thou wilt make me […]