Where Flapping Herons Wake
48 x 48
Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic, conte crayon, pastel and cut paper
Inspired by "The Stolen Child" by W.B. Yeats
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth DE
O Sages
24 x 18
Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic
Inspired by "Sailing to Byantium" by W.B. Yeats
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth Delaware
My Soul, My Self
16 x 20
Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic, cut paper
Inspired by "A Dialogue of Self and Soul" by W.B. Yeats
My Child Sleeps On
20 x 20
Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic
Inspired by "A Prayer For My Daughter" by W.B. Yeats
Available from River Gallery, Chattanooga Tennessee
The Pilgrim Soul of You
24 x 18
Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic
Inspired by "When You Are Old" by W.B. Yeats
Available through River Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee
How Love Fled
How Love Fled
23 x 16
Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic
Inspired by "When You Are Old" by WB Yeats
Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth Delaware
Unhaunted Sleep
8 x 10
Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, charcoal
Inspired by "The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland" by W.B. Yeats
Available at River Gallery, Chattanooga Tennessee
Walked and Prayed
10 x 8
Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, charcoal
Inspired by "A Prayer for My Daughter" by W.B. Yeats
Mused and Drank Sweet Wine
18 x 24
Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, charcoal, house paint
Black Frame
Inspired by The Madness of King Goll, W.B. Yeats (excerpt)
I sat and mused and drank sweet wine;
A herdsman came from inland valleys,
Crying, the pirates drove his swine
To fill their dark-beaked hollow galleys.
I called my battle-breaking men
And my loud brazen battle-cars
From rolling vale and rivery glen;
And under the blinking of the stars
Fell on the pirates by the deep,
And hurled them in the gulph of sleep:
These hands won many a torque of gold.
They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.
Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth Delaware
Gyres Run On
10 x12
Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, house paint, charcoal
Black Frame
Inspired by Under Ben Bulben, W.B. Yeats (excerpt)
Gyres run on;
When that greater dream had gone
Calvert and Wilson, Blake and Claude
Prepared a rest for the people of God,
Palmer's phrase, but after that
Confusion fell upon our thought.
Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth Delaware
A Golden Bough
9 x 11
Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic, house paint
Inspired by Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats (excerpt)
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth Delaware
Artifice of Eternity
10 x 12
Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, charcoal, house paint
Inspired by Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats (excerpt)
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Available at Gallery 50, Rehoboth Delaware