One of six works by the artist commissioned by the Welsh Arts Council for the exhibition 'The Fall' which opened at the Oriel in April 1976 and toured to Bangor Art Gallery, the Museum and Art Gallery, Newport and the Glynn Vivian Museum and Art Gallery, Swansea. The artists commissioned for 'The Fall' - Mervyn Baldwin, Paul Bowen, Ian Grainger, Will Lorimer, Chris Orr and Gwyn Watkins - were challenged to provide a series of illustrations to specific biblical passages relating to the story of Adam and Eve
The Fall No.1.
Standing nude red-haired woman / Eve from the Bible with coiled snake’s / serpent’s head in her right hand and its tail wrapped under her armpit onto her left hand as she goes to pick the forbidden fruit from a tree (only a bunch of leaves / foliage visible). A flowering bush to the bottom right with artist signature? and tiny caterpillar. Black out line drawing coloured with vivid blue and red tones, a dark thin strip of sky at the top is visible.