Mixed media on board, 30 x 48"
Shakespeare's "Ophelia"

Mixed media on board, 48 x 30"
“Earth, the beautiful, rose up,
Broad-bosomed, she that is the steadfast base
Of all things. And fair Earth first bore
The starry Heaven, equal to herself,
To cover her on all sides and to be
A home forever for the blessed gods.”

~The Greek poet Hesiod

Mixed media on board, 30 x 48"
Rimbaud's "Ophelia" from his poem by the same name.

Mixed media on board, 30 x 30" section 1 of diptych
Based on a poem by
Edna St. Vincent Millay –

Prayer to Persephone

Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be:
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,—Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee:
Say to her, “My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here.”

Mixed media on board, 30 x 18" section 2 of diptych
Based on a poem by
Edna St. Vincent Millay –

Prayer to Persephone

Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be:
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,—Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee:
Say to her, “My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here.”

Mixed media on board, 30 x 48" diptych
Based on a poem by
Edna St. Vincent Millay –

Prayer to Persephone

Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be:
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,—Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee:
Say to her, “My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here.”

Mixed media on board, triptych (3) 8 x 8" panels
“Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil.”
― Nancy B. Brewer

Walnut ink, vintage handmade paper, 12 x 16"

Walnut ink handmade vintage paper, 12 x 18"