a song so low with voice so sweet
an ancient spell she sang alone
in hours dark her love to meet
and hoped his life would be her home

amidst the lonely breaking tides
the boat lay battered by the rocks
her whisper to his heart confides
a dream of silken jet-black locks

his face grown still, of life bereft
unknown the waters cold contempt
which moved her fingers, soft and deft,
his mortal coil away to tempt

in love her lonely soul sought rest
yet death returned it to her breast

original poem Miss A. Butterflyweaver for UBG and ever Richard

Odilon Redon was one of the greatest of the French symbolists. He was a pupil of Stanislas Gorin at Bordeaux, of Gerôme at the Paris Beaux-Arts, and finally of Rodolphe Bresdin. In 1870 he settled in Paris. Worked at first with charcoal. In 1879, published a first series of lithographs In Dream. Others were to follow. In 1884, he took part in the Salon des Indépendants of which he was one of the founders, and in the Salon of the XX in Brussels (in 1886,1887 and 1890). A friend of Stéphane Mallarmé , Francis Jammes, Jean Moréas and Paul Valéry. He took up pastels and colour in the 1890s. His finest creations are those in which his supple draughtsmanship and rare, phosphorescent colours evoke a mythical universe. It is no coincidence that these evocative images, whose sumptuous line encloses dream-like colours, attracted the praise of the Symbolist writers, from Stéphane Mallarmé to J-K Huysmans. He was admired by painters as various as Gaugin, Emile Bernard, Matisse and the Nabis, who dragged him out of his retirement. Painting was, for Redon, a way of escaping his own psychological problems, problems as "literary" as those of Gustave Moreau, whom he knew and admired.
Biography from the website: http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=odil...

List of works as they appeared in the clip:
Lumiere
Underwater vision
The Golden Cell
The Flower Clouds
Ophelia (upside down)
Virgin with Corona
Beatrice
Evocation of Butterflies

An excellent resource online for Redon's works is:
http://www.odilon-redon.org/the-complete-works-1-96-3-0.html

Exquisite cello composition, Night in the Cathedral, by Thierry Renard from among many treasures on the album Chartres of my friends, The Catherine Braslavsky Ensemble. I recommend the cd highly... please support these incredible artists.
http://www.naturalchant.com/ (less info)