Born 1943. Lives and works in Melbourne.

“You are rare, very rare the way that you have given yourself to landscape and off hand, I know of no other Australian artist that has done so with such singular passion.” John Olsen.

Jeffrey Makin is one of Australia's most influential artists. As a painter, printmaker and academic, he has a vision of the landscape that one cannot simply classify. His extraordinary understanding of the language and the history of image-making combine in his work to convey a subtleness of light and structure.

Makin is an artist at the height of his skills, who successfully delves into the drama of the sublime whilst contemplating a contemporary pastoral arcadia. His long time collaborator, John Olsen, described Makin in Australia Felix The Landscape of Jeffrey Makin (published by Macmillan Press):

"You are rare, very rare the way that you have given yourself to landscape and off hand, I know of no other Australian artist that has done so with such singular passion."

A winner and finalist in numerous awards and leading art prizes, Makin's work is included in the following National and State Gallery collections: Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Australian National University, Canberra, ACT; Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; Art Gallery of WA, Perth; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Parliament House Collection, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; as well as most Regional and University Gallery collections, and leading corporate and private collections.