Visions of Hope & Fear

8×10 oil on canvas
July 23, 2012

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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 thine eyes is mean or low:
Where’er thou art, on every side,
All things are glorified;

And where thou canst not come, there thou dost throw
Beautiful shadows, made out of the dark,
That else were shapeless; now it bears thy mark.

7×9 oil on canvas
July 23, 2012

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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 wrong,
The sun, that had nursed them and loved them so long,
Grew weary of loving, and, turning back,
Hastened away on his southern track;
And helplessly hung each shrivelled leaf,
Faded away with an idle grief.

And the gusts of wind, sad Autumn’s sighs,
Mournfully swept through their families;
Casting away with a helpless moan
All that he yet might call his own,
As the child, when his bird is gone for ever,
Flingeth the cage on the wandering river.