The Tower of Babel

'And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower… and said, “Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them... Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth..'

This oil painting depicts the architects discussing the last stages of the building of the tower. The dark, strangely blue-green palette fills us with a sense of foreboding for the destruction which is about to come.

85cm x 60cm in an unusual white ridged frame and ready to hang. This piece is destined to be a conversation piece.