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.3.
A Biblical man and woman / Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, seen side on turning backwards away from each other, crouching and sitting on the ground, holding their hands up to their heads in misery. They both wear fig leaves as garments and the snake / serpent coils up by blades of grass in the foreground between them, artist signature? to the right. Around them more flowers have lost their colour and a caterpillar sits by Adam. Black out line drawing coloured with subtle blue and red tones, the dark thinner strip of sky from ‘The Fall No.2’ has expanded further down the image and top right corner has been removed to create an irregular shaped composition.