Robert Jacks 'Lake Eyre Garden' animals Reveling in his inner-child

Reveling in his inner-child

Striated lines serve as one of the quintessential abstract motifs within Charles Blackman's figurative art

Signed: Signed and dated lower right: Eric Thake 1962

modern dance and traditional art

Robert Jacks 'Lake Eyre Garden' animals Reveling in his inner-childRobert Jacks represents one of Australias most esteemed and distinctive abstract artists. From selling out his first solo exhibition in 1966, spending ten years on a self described international internship in New York and Canada through to a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014, Jacks spent a lifetime fine tuning his visual language. He grew up learning to draw the garden with his father, a horticulturalist. In art school he