A.B. Makk was born in 1951 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, son of illustrious artists Eva and Americo Makk.  A.B. ( short for Americo Bartholomew) took up brush and palette as normally as other children reach for ice cream cones:  with enjoyment and pleasure.  He was exhibiting his paintings at the age of four by the insistence of his patron and first collector, Don Jose Tupinamba de Frotas, a Bishop of Ceara. The Brazilian press reviewed these young works and wrote enthusiastically about the "Little Picasso." 

His childhood contained a potpourri of exotic and extraordinary experiences, which undoubtedly were impressed upon his young mind and evidence themselves today in his painting style. A.B. Makk traveled with his parents as they received exciting commissions throughout Brazil.  Often he spent hours, even whole days, on scaffolds where Eva and Americo Makk were painting murals.  When only seven years of age, he traveled deep into the Amazon jungle for more than a year with his parents, facing a primitive world filled with peril and fierce natural beauty.

A.B. Makk's formal training included studies throughout Brazil. He came to the United States with his parents in 1962, attended high school and art school in New York, and moved with them to Hawaii in 1967. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Hawaii with majors in psychology and languages, A.B. continued his intensive art apprenticeship under his parents. Since then, he has exhibited regularly in galleries and museums in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, and he has won numerous awards and honors for his paintings. 

A.B. absorbed his parents' techniques, developed a blend of his own and now works in his own unique genre. He starts with colors where Manet and Renoir left off; he blends color after color in combinations that historically have not been used together to create sun-drenched warmth on a cool day or conversely, to insulate wafts of cool air on a hot day. Like Turner, A.B. MakkÕs scenes of nature evoke a strong sense of mood. His manipulation of light to express beauty and dignity, his ability to paint a complex and many-faceted feeling as opposed to merely a beautiful scene, his sense of depth and serenity, these are the qualities that put A.B. in the same class as his famous parents.