watercolor
2012
A Blessing Like the Kiss of a Mother
9×12″ watercolor on paper July 29, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: I stood one moment and gazed into the heaving abyss beneath me; then plunged headlong into the mounting wave below. A blessing, like the kiss of a mother, seemed to alight on my soul; a calm, […]
2012
Purged with Sorrow
8×10″ pen and watercolor on recycled paper August 24, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following section of “A Broken Prayer” in A Threefold Cord by George MacDonald: Lord, clothe me with thy truth as with a robe; Purge me with sorrow; I will bend my head And let the nations of thy waves pass […]
2012
A Residue of Life They Cannot Kill
9×12″ watercolor on paper September 3, 2012 Buy prints 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; […]
2012
Her Torment is that She Is What She Is
11×14″ watercolor on paper September 9, 2012 Buy original Buy prints 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 […]
2012
The Country Whence the Shadows Fall
11×14″ watercolor on paper September 7, 2012 Buy original Buy prints 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.