Jeffrey Makin 'Acacia and Blackboys' nature Alun Leach Jones

Alun Leach Jones

Image Size: 41 x 28 cm

Dimensions: 94 x 90 cm

The iconic gaping mouth serves as Luna Park's entrance into a parallel universe where the ordinary existence is left behind

Three years before visiting the Nullarbor

Jeffrey Makin 'Acacia and Blackboys' nature Alun Leach JonesAnyone 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