Jeffrey Makin 'Flinders Ranges' hyper-real Interested in the societally misunderstood

Interested in the societally misunderstood

In this wistful drawing

carries on his father’s legacy with this powerful painting

Photographer and subject contemplate each other across a vast and unforgiving landscape

he was appointed the official war artist and is the subject of two major monographs

Jeffrey Makin 'Flinders Ranges' hyper-real Interested in the societally misunderstoodAnyone 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