Jeffrey Makin 'Table Cape Lighthouse Tasmania' minimalist a visual vessel for the

a visual vessel for the metaphysical

The National Library of Australia and the Epworth Art Foundation

titled on verso

In this work depicting two dogs

Jeffrey Makin 'Table Cape Lighthouse Tasmania' minimalist a visual vessel for theAnyone 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 Makin, the landscape offers complexity, history and personality. In his portraits of natural landscape, he carves