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JEFF MAKIN: The Glen Harrow Paintings

27 Apr — 12 May 2024

Opening Event 27 Apr

For over two decades Jeff Makin and his family lived at the historical property, The Gables of Glen Harrow. During these years the Glen Harrow Gardens, planted some 100 years before their residence, were significant to the artist’s practice and to his family. Situated over nearly four acres and nestled amongst the misty foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, these gardens meant something more to the artist than simply a “landscape setting” to put to canvas. For an artist whose career has unwaveringly pursued the genii loci – spirit of place – of the Australian landscape, what is captured in The Glen Harrow Paintings is perhaps Makin’s most significant embodiment of this vocation. Captured in this body of work is not just the physicality of the landscape, but the essence of a life lived alongside his family, its changing seasons and intimate vistas.

As always with Jeff Makin, this was not a merely sentimental pursuit, but a critical, technical investigation of “applying the rule of what you know to what you feel” – a phrase repeated often by the artist and across each of The Glen Harrow Paintings. An intersection of romantic abstraction and the pictorial, these works, assembled here for the first time, record the heartbeat of Makin’s celebrated practice.

ARTWORKS

  • Glen Harrow Autumn No.3Jeff Makin Glen Harrow Autumn No.2 1992 oil on linen 76.5 x 61 cm $8,250.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Echiums, Glen HarrowJeff Makin Echiums, Glen Harrow 1993 oil on linen 84 x 71.5 cm $11,000.00 ENQUIRE →
  • RhododendronsJeff Makin Rhododendrons 1996 oil on linen 71 x 84 cm $11,000.00 ENQUIRE →
  • The Artist's GardenJeff Makin The Artist's Garden 2000 oil on linen 122 x 152 cm $32,000.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Study for Glen Harrow Autumn No.2Jeff Makin Study for Glen Harrow Autumn No.2 1994 oil on linen 91 x 61 cm $11,000.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Legh's GardenJeff Makin Legh's Garden 1990 oil on linen 76 x 91.5 cm $11,500.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Glen Harrow SummerJeff Makin Glen Harrow Summer 1994 oil on linen 91 x 61 cm $11,000.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Glen Harrow IdlyllJeff Makin Glen Harrow Idlyll 2000 oil on linen 71 x 84 cm $11,000.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Glen Harrow AutumnJeff Makin Glen Harrow Autumn 1994 oil on linen 153 x 91.5 cm $22,000.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Elizabeth's GardenJeff Makin Elizabeth's Garden 1990 oil on linen 101.5 x 45.5 cm $8,250.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Elizabeth's Garden No.2Jeff Makin Elizabeth's Garden No.2 1990 oil on linen 76 x 51 cm $7,500.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Glen Harrow SpringJeff Makin Glen Harrow Spring 2002 oil on linen 40.5 x 51 cm $6,000.00 ENQUIRE →
  • Glen Harrow OrchardJeff Makin Glen Harrow Orchard circa 1996 oil on linen 122 x 96 cm $21,500.00 ENQUIRE →

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