Jeffrey Makin 'Barrington Pastoral' - Etching on paper figurative

Jeffrey Makin 'Barrington Pastoral' - Etching on paper figurativeAnyone who has travelled into the Australian landscape will recognise its magnetism. At once unyielding and symphonic, its varying, vast and sometimes alien terrain has transfixed generation after generation of artists. Today, the living leader of this tradition is Jeffrey Makin, who out in the plein air distils the spirit of place. For Mr. Makin, the landscape offers complexity, history and personality. In his portraits of natural landscape, he

Image Size: 65 x 51 cm

Blackman's Alice is suspended weightless beside swelling flowers

the landscape offers complexity

his atmospheric landscapes are less about preciness and more a vehicle for emotional contemplation

where every view may be different but it bears intensely on your inner self

'Sign of Life 15' 2014

It is intensely evocative

Archival Pigment Print on Paper

a chair sits vacant and outside green hills rise over the horizon

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fade resistant inks

his work is represented in most regional and state collections