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Capacity for Simple Happiness

Capacity for Simple Happiness

9×12″ watercolor on paper July 15, 2012 Buy original Buy print Inspired the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: I had never imagined that such capacity for simple happiness lay in me, as was now awakened by this assembly of forms and spiritual sensations, which yet were far too vague to admit of being […]

I Always Chose the Path Downwards

I Chose the Path Which Seemed to Lead Downwards

9×12″ watercolor on paper July 15, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: Whenever a choice was necessary, I always chose the path which seemed to lead downwards.

Oh Lift the Burdened Gloom that Chokes My Soul

Oh Lift the Burdened Gloom that Chokes My Soul

9×12″ watercolor on paper July 19, 2012 Buy original Buy prints This one comes from two passages and one scripture: And here I lay, the child of changeful Time Shut in the weary, changeless Evermore, A dull, eternal, fadeless clime!… “Alas,” I cried, “I am no living man! Better were darkness and the leave to […]

She Looked a Wanderer

She Looked a Wanderer

9×12″ watercolor on paper July 24, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from “The Homeless Ghost” by George MacDonald: He watched, but saw her speak to none, Saw no one speak to her; Like one decried, she stood alone, From the window did not stir; Her hair by a haunting gust […]

Eye of the Child

Eye of the Child

9×12″ watercolor on paper July 24, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: But is it not rather that art rescues nature from the weary and sated regards of our senses, and the degrading injustice of our anxious everyday life, and, appealing to the imagination, which dwells apart, reveals […]