pastel
2013
Where There is Hatred, May We Sow Love
8×10″ markers and pastel on paper March 25, 2013 Buy prints Buy original Inspired by the words of Francis of Assisi.
2013
Up the Hills Must Homeward Be
8×10″ pen and pastel on paper March 16, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s poem “The Hills”: “She was not born among the hills, Yet on each mountain face A something known her inward eye By inborn light can trace; For up the hills must homeward be, Though no one knows the […]
2013
She Teaches Me to Be a Brave Man in the Dark, and I Look After Her Until She Can Bear the Heat of the Sun
8×10″ pen and chalk pastels on paper February 23, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Day Boy and Night Girl”: ‘If ever two people couldn’t do the one without the other, those two are Nycteris and I. She has got to teach me to be a brave man in the dark, and […]
2013
Her Confidence in One Who Failed so Unworthily, Shamed Me
8×10″ markers and pastel on paper January 31, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Lilith: Her confidence in one who had failed so unworthily, shamed me. But neither had I initiated the movement, nor had I any ground for opposing it; I had no choice, but must give it the best help […]
2013
Die Into Life
7×9″ pastel on paper October 7, 2012 Inspired by the line from George MacDonald’s Lilith from which this piece takes its title.