The 12 Faithful Women: A Developing Series

Twelve Faithful Women is a developing portrait series exploring the lives of twelve women whose stories unfold throughout Scripture.

Each painting considers a woman within the complexity of her own story: her choices, circumstances, relationships, faith, uncertainty, courage, and encounter with God. Rather than presenting these women as distant figures, the series approaches them as individuals whose lives still invite reflection.

The portraits are created slowly, allowing research, Scripture, symbolism, and the painting process to shape each work. Together, the twelve pieces will form a larger meditation on faith expressed through ordinary human lives.

The first three portraits introduce Eve, Sarah, and Rahab, three women whose lives reveal different expressions of consequence, promise, and redemption.

Eve: Echoes of Eden considers the first woman beyond the familiar moment of the Fall. As a wife and mother, Eve lived with the consequences of leaving Eden while continuing to nurture life beyond it. Her portrait reflects on beginnings, loss, motherhood, and the possibility of moving forward after choices that cannot be undone.

Sarah: A Silver Smile explores a woman whose life was shaped by movement, waiting, uncertainty, and promise. She left what was familiar for an inheritance she could not yet see. Inspired by Matthew 6:19, her portrait considers the temporary things we gather and the deeper legacy formed through faith. Sarah’s greatest inheritance was not something she could store or possess, but something held in the promises of God and carried forward long beyond her lifetime.

Rahab: Red Cord of Redemption centers on the scarlet cord she placed in her window as a sign of deliverance. A Canaanite woman and outsider, Rahab acted on a faith that changed the direction of her life. Her portrait considers the relationship between past and possibility: what has been does not have to determine what comes next. Her story becomes a meditation on courage, grace, and a redemption that does not erase the past, but transforms what can follow.