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My Globe, You’ve Broken My Globe

9×12″ oil on paper July 15, 2012 Buy original Buy prints The story that inspired this painting is from George MacDonald’s Phantastes. I would love to do a series of paintings on it, and this one only captures a portion … Continue reading

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An Indescribably Longing for Something

11×14″ oil on canvas July 15, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: The sign or cause of coming death is an indescribable longing for something, they know not what, which seizes them, and … Continue reading

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God Sleeps Not When He Makes His Daughters Dream

15×17″ oil on canvas July 17, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from A Story of the Sea Shore by George MacDonald: God sleeps not when he makes His daughters dream. Shall not the morrow dawn at last … Continue reading

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The Other Is Able to Fulfill It

11×14″ oil on canvas July 17, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Lilith by George MacDonald. They are the words of Hope to Vane: When a man dreams his own dream, He is the sport … Continue reading

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God, Not Gift

11×14″ oil on canvas July 18, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following poem, “God, Not Gift,” by George MacDonald: Gray clouds my heaven have covered o’er; My sea ebbs fast, no more to flow; Ghastly and dry, my desert … Continue reading

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