In February I was asked by The Image Group to create a series of paintings to be used in conjunction with a video presentation titled, “That the World May Know,” the latest installment in historian Ray Vander Laan’s DVD series. Traveling to locations throughout present day Israel, the film examines sites of Biblical significance, some rarely seen, as Vander Laan discusses the events that took place there.

My assignment was to bring those historical accounts to life by illustrating the people and places of those stories, to show how they may have looked at the time the events took place. The subjects ranged from the authors of the Dead Sea scrolls, the Essenes, and their daily life, to a depiction of the Last Supper, (in a very un-daVinci like, but historically accurate manner). This is a selection of some of those pieces, all created digitally using Photoshop and Painter.


Elijah standing against the Israelites on Mt Carmel.


An Essene scriptorium where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were written.


Essene workers building an aqueduct to bring running water to their community.


An Essene family argues over the true meaning of a scroll’s passage.


A typical Essene hut.


The Last Supper.