During the summer of 2008, Maud Taber-Thomas had a research fellowship from Bowdoin College to study the philosophy and painting techniques of the Pre-Raphaelites. The project inspired her to do a series of paintings that explore Pre-Raphaelite ideas.
Damsel with a Dulcimer
8″ x 10″
Oil on Panel
2009
A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

Dorian Gray II: The Senses and the Soul
30″ x 40″
Oil on Canvas
2008
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”–The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Lilies of the Field: Jonathan
10″ x 14″
Oil on Panel
2008
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.-Matthew 6:28-29
