Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996


Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996


Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996


Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996

Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996


Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996


Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996


Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996


Revelation Revealed (Details)
1995-1996

BIOGRAPHY

In 1989, during a church service in Hawaii, William Thomas Thompson suddenly experienced what he calls "an anointing of the Lord," a vision of the world on fire. He had come to Hawaii to reassess his life after the collapse of a silk flower import business he and his wife had built up over three decades. He also hoped to recuperate from a nerve disease that had paralyzed him below the knees and partially crippled his hands. Thompson suffered the physical collapse at about the same time as his financial disaster. After seeing his vision, he rushed to buy paints and brushes. When he returned home from his trip, he was brought off the plane in a wheelchair, carrying his first completed painting in his hands. During the following months he began to fill his house with apocalyptic canvases. Although some of the more than five hundred paintings he has produced concern gentler topics like landscapes and still lifes, his primary inspirations continue to be the Book of Revelation and his interpretations of its symbolic messages. The painting featured here consists of the entire Book of Revelation, stretching over 300 feet in length. Thompson, born in 1935, now lives with his wife in the old Gassaway Mansion in Greenville, South Carolina, where his works are stacked against the walls throughout the house. He does most of his painting in a large room that was once the mansion's second-floor ballroom.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.