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Where There is Darkness, May We Sow Love

Where There is Hatred, May We Sow Love

8×10″ markers and pastel on paper March 25, 2013 Buy prints Buy original Inspired by the words of Francis of Assisi.

Up the Hills Must Homeward Be

Up the Hills Must Homeward Be

8×10″ pen and pastel on paper March 16, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s poem “The Hills”: “She was not born among the hills, Yet on each mountain face A something known her inward eye By inborn light can trace; For up the hills must homeward be, Though no one knows the […]

She Teaches Me to Be a Brave Man in the Dark, and I Look After Her Until She Can Bear the Heat of the Sun

She Teaches Me to Be a Brave Man in the Dark, and I Look After Her Until She Can Bear the Heat of the Sun

8×10″ pen and chalk pastels on paper February 23, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Day Boy and Night Girl”: ‘If ever two people couldn’t do the one without the other, those two are Nycteris and I. She has got to teach me to be a brave man in the dark, and […]

Her Confidence in One Who Failed so Unworthily, Shamed Me

Her Confidence in One Who Failed so Unworthily, Shamed Me

8×10″ markers and pastel on paper January 31, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Lilith: Her confidence in one who had failed so unworthily, shamed me. But neither had I initiated the movement, nor had I any ground for opposing it; I had no choice, but must give it the best help […]

Die Into Life

Die Into Life

7×9″ pastel on paper October 7, 2012 Inspired by the line from George MacDonald’s Lilith from which this piece takes its title.