9×12″ watercolor on paper
September 3, 2012
Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald:
Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.
11×14″ watercolor on paper
September 9, 2012
Inspired by the following passage from Lilith by George MacDonald:
“You cannot go near her,” she said. “She is far away from us, afar in the hell of her self-consciousness.
The central fire of the universe is radiating into her the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge of what she is. She sees at last the good she is not, the evil she is.
She knows that she is herself the fire in which she is burning, but she does not know that the Light of Life is the heart of that fire.
Her torment is that she is what she is.”
11×14″ watercolor on paper
September 7, 2012
Inspired by the following passage from The Golden Key by George MacDonald:
They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall.
And by this time I think they must have got there.
11×14″ watercolor on paper
September 9, 2012
Inspired by the following stanza from “I Know What Beauty Is” by George MacDonald:
I know what beauty is, for Thou
Hast set the world within my heart;
Its glory from me will not part;
I never loved it more than now.
7×9″ pen and watercolor on paper
September 28, 2012
Inspired the following passage from Within and Without by George MacDonald:
I thank thee for the sorrow and the care,
Through which they gleamed, bright phosporescent sparks
Crushed from the troubled waters, borne on which
Through mist and dark my soul draws nigh to thee.
