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JEFFREY MAKIN             Australia   1943 -

Jeffrey Makin is an artist, art critic and director of Port Jackson Press Australia. Born in Wagga Wagga NSW,  Makin has held numerous senior academic appointments while maintaining a flourishing artistic practice nationally and internationally with over 60 solo exhibitions. He is recognized as one of Australia’s leading landscape painters and his work explores the picturesque and the sublime in nature, capturing those intangible qualities that form the essence of the land. Recent record sales of Makin’s paintings indicate a renewed interest in the landscape genre, more specifically in Makin’s oeuvre as he remains the living heir to the Heidelberg School tradition. In a career that has been dedicated toward capturing the vastness of Australia’s varying terrain, his work invariably succeeds in its depiction of the genius locus, or ‘spirit of place’.

Makin is represented in all national, state and most regional and corporate collections in Australia. In 2007 a boutique hotel in Melbourne was named in his honour.

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Cradle Mountain 2004

"Australia Felix" Suite

etching - edition 60

320 x 670 image size

570 x 760 paper size

$681

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