watercolor
2013
A Heart Bereft
9×12″ watercolor on paper July 28, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “The Old Garden,” from “A Threefold Cord”: Her look is hopeless yet eager, The look of a heart bereft.
2013
Keep Thou Thy Soul Translucent
9×12″ watercolor on paper January 9, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Inspired the following passage from George MacDonald’s Robert Falconer: Men call the shadow, thrown upon the universe where their own dusky souls come between it and the eternal sun, ‘life’, and then mourn that it should be less bright than the hopes of their […]
2013
Although She Loves No Man, She Loves the Love of Any Man
9×12″ watercolor on paper July 3, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: “But tell me how it is that she could be so beauÂtiful without any heart at all—without any place even for a heart to live in.” “I cannot quite tell,” she said; ” but […]
2013
High-Parent Love
8×10″ watercolor on paper July 13, 2012 Buy original Buy print Inspired by the following lines from Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald: What has been, shall not only be, but is. The hues of dreamland, strange and sweet and tender Are but hint-shadows of full many a splendor Which the high Parent-love […]
2013
Trust the Oak
9×12″ watercolor on paper September 15, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: “Trust the Oak,” said she; “trust the Oak, and the Elm, and the great Beech. Take care of the Birch, for though she is honest, she is too young not to be changeable.”