Monthly Archives: December 2012
The Love of Place
8 1/2×11″ oil pastels on paper August 18, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Lilith by George MacDonald: So strong in them was the love of place that their country seemed essential to their very being!
I Know the Rapture Music Brings
8×10″ pastels on recycled paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the poem “I Know What Beauty Is” by George MacDonald, specifically the following stanza: I know the rapture music brings, The power that dwells in ordered tones, A … Continue reading
She Read Phantasmagoric Tales
7×9″ charcoal on recycled paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from A Hidden Life by George MacDonald: She was not one who of herself could be; And she had found no heart which, tuned with … Continue reading
He Was No More
14×17″ pastels on paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Somnium Mystici: A Microcosm in Terza Rima by George MacDonald: He was no more. I laid me down and wept; I dared not follow him, … Continue reading
Leave You! But I Am So Happy With You!
14×17″ watercolor on paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the passage below from Phantastes by George MacDonald. There are some discrepancies in this illustration. The woman is supposed to be old and wise with young eyes, a maternal … Continue reading