Eve

Oil on board, 16×20″, 2025
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In the Garden of Eden, Eve ponders the most fateful question of all time: “Is there no other way?”

In this painting, I debated how to show one of the most consequential moments of all time, when billions of descendants still in Heaven awaited with anxiety for Eve to choose to transgress God’s law and partake of the forbidden fruit (show here as an apple), thus enabling God’s plan for His children to gain physical bodies like His and grow, with His loving and forgiving guidance, to become like Him.

Rather than tread the familiar imagery and risk focusing too much on distractions, I decided to focus on Eve’s face. Even her eyes are “infinity focused”, her eyes wide set, staring into eternity. I rather enjoyed making her a bit of a wild redhead.

Joyfully, Eve later makes this statement: “Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient … And Adam and Eve blessed the name of God.” To my mind, she and Adam both celebrated their choices and responsibilities. Eternity owes them a debt for their wisdom and courage.

Process

Click the images below to see ideas of how I created the painting.