Jeffrey Makin 'Wilsons Promontory' organic & textural

Jeffrey Makin 'Wilsons Promontory' organic & texturalAnyone 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

the kind of place our protagonist would hide out in

Gill Del-Mace’s beautifully executed images draw us into a fantasy world of carnivals and sideshows

'Hide and Seek II' 1989

Merrett presents a still life: a potted flower

clothing designer for Mambo and artist

oil on board

After initial success as a 'Field' artist in the late 1960s

'Fable III' 1977

it proved the opposite

Here he treks into the rainforest to crouch beside a waterfall

Larwill presents a portrait of a man with a hat

'Nostalgic Woman' 2020