Victor Mak

Victor Mak’s artwork is resonant of an extraordinary and privileged childhood where the Murray River in South Australia was his back yard and playground. Free to explore, swim, fish, canoe, camp and cook on open fires - the kind of childhood and freedom that dreams are made of.

Painting since his early 20’s, his work is described as “Australian Fusion”, a new genre in the landscape of styles. His bold abstractions of our beautiful country have been applauded for the dynamic and rapturously expressive use of colour evoking a sense of movement across our land. Careful application of thick rich colour in intricate patterning creates a three-dimensional moulded topography. Colour floods the landforms with the static tension of a Mak creation - energy metamorphosed into rock, river, billabong and sandy creek beds.

Mak’s sinuous, serpentine theme seizes the eye with an extremism of colour: reds, blues, greens and sienna’s so deep they almost shade into darkness. Often allied with a controlled delicacy of brushstroke, the paint surface seems to pulse with minute and constant motions.

The artist's work is held in private collections throughout Australia and New Zealand.