These paintings are inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando.
Orlando II: “Eyes like drenched Violets”
11″ x 14″
Oil on Panel
2010
“Directly we glance at Orlando standing by the window, we must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; and a brow like the swelling of a marble dome pressed between the two blank medallions which were his temples. Directly we glance at eyes and forehead, thus do we rhapsodize.”
—Orlando, Virginia Woolf
Maud Taber-Thomas 