"Goldberry" by Alisa Simonoff

"In a chair, at the the far side of the room facing the outer door, sat a woman. Her long yellow hair rippled down her shoulders; her gown was green, green as young reeds, shot with silver like beads of dew; and her belt was of gold, shaped like a chain of flag-lilies set with the pale-blue eyes of forget-me-knots. About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating so that she seemed enthrone in the midst of a pool...But before they could say anything she sprang lightly up and over the lily-bowls, and ran laughing towards them; and as she ran her gown rustled softly like the wind in the flowering borders of a river."

From "The Fellowship of the Ring," by J.R.R Tolkien

Graphite on Paper, 25" x 15"

2007