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Going Down to Lower Things With Lofty Cares

Going Down to Lower Things With Lofty Cares

8×10″ pen and colored pencil on paper June 2, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “A Hidden Life”: She laboured as before; though when she would, And Nature urged not, she, with privilege, Would spare from hours of toil–read in her room, Or wander through the moorland to the hills; […]

A Shadowy Fear, Long Haunting the Horizon of Her Soul

A Shadowy Fear, Long Haunting the Horizon of Her Soul

8×10″ pen and colored pencil on paper June 11, 2012 Buy prints at https://www.etsy.com/listing/125817893/a-shadowy-fear-long-haunting-the-horizon Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Story of the Sea Shore”: Months passed; he came not; and a shadowy fear, Long haunting the horizon of her soul, In deeper gloom and sharper form drew nigh; And growing in bulk, […]

Consider the Birds

Consider the Birds

8×10″ pen and pastels on paper January 16, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Part of a series on the season of Epiphany and inspired by the following biblical passage: “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you […]

If She is Tired Inside, Everything Will Tire Her

If She Is Tired Inside, Everything Will Tire Her

8×10″ pen and chalk pastels on paper January 16, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Adela Cathecart: “What has she to tire her?” “If she is tired inside first, everything will tire her.”

Reading Suspended

8×10″ pen on paper September 28, 2012 Buy prints Part of a series called “Tolle Lege” (“take up and read”) inspired by the conversion scene in from book VIII of Augustine’s Confessions.