Jeff Makin

Born in 1943 Jeff Makin is a full-time artist, art critic and is recognized as one of Australia’s leading landscape painters.

Makin is best known for his paintings en plein air of the Australian and European landscape. He has held numerous senior academic appointments while maintaining a flourishing artistic practice.

Jeff Makin’s artwork has long explored the picturesque and the sublime in nature, rooted in the Australian locations he has visited throughout his career as he searches to capture those intangible qualities that form the essence of the land.

'Landmarks by their very nature are immediately identifiable, partly through constructed imagery created through mediums such as painting, which become integral to our perception of them', says Makin.

In 2007 a boutique hotel in East Melbourne was named in his honour. 

Jeff Makin is represented in all National, State and most Regional and corporate collections in Australia.  

'RED CENTRE' (JULY 2023)
'MONOCHROME' GROUP EXHIBITION (MAY 2022)
'PRIMAVERAL' GROUP EXHIBITION (SEP - OCT 2020)
'ELIZABETH'S GARDEN' EXHIBITION (MAY 2019)
'LANDMARKS' EXHIBITION (MAY 2016)

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