Eve's temptation
(Ref 5/08)
Oil on stretched canvas
1500 x 1000 mm

Most sin follows on from a failure to kill it at the place of desire - the eye" Matt 6:22

The best time to kill a snake is in it's egg.

"Did God really say, You can't eat from any tree in the garden?" The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die!" "No! You will not die," the serpent lied to the woman." Gen 3:1(b)

Eve share the Temptation
(Ref 17/08)
Oil on stretched canvas
1500 x 1000 mm

"Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it." Gen 3:6

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The curse
(Ref 19/08)
Oil on stretched canvas
1500 x 1000 mm

"The Lord God said to the woman: ' I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will dominate you'. And He said to Adam:'Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it!' : The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field. You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow - until you return to the ground...." Gen 3:16
"...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.."
Rom 3:23

Death
(Ref 20/08)
Oil on stretched canvas
1800 x 800 mm


"And the Lord God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.'" Gen 2:16

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom 6:23