Jeffrey Makin 'Tantallon Castle' - Etching on paper fantastical This work will enliven collections

This work will enliven collections of landscapes

The infinite horizon of Central Australia is suffused in soft European light - Leveson is uninterested in the specificities of place

'The Blue Bay XI' 1987

Image Size: 42 x 66 cm

University of Melbourne

Jeffrey Makin 'Tantallon Castle' - Etching on paper fantastical This work will enliven collectionsAnyone 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