'And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die"' Genesis 2:16-17

Paradise Lost is my depiction of the Fall. Here, I tried to imagine what it must have felt like to be Adam or Eve; to know that I had a perfect and holy existence, and then, through my own defiance lost absolutely everything. I would feel totally and utterly bereft.

Paradise Lost is intentionally slightly discordant with the rest of The Light of the World paintings. This was a conscious decision I took to depict loss, decay, culpability and hopelessness. The rest of the paintings are an embodiment of hope and thus take on a different feel in the narrative.