Furry darkness, 2020, was painted in the weeks before the lockdown, and is subconsciously filled by many of the anxieties and fears of that time. Despite this, this crowded scene of isolated figures reveals tender likenesses of her partner and their world. Makinson has long been interested in figures waiting either in a past or post-apocalyptic future setting. Figures in Furry Darkness are occupied with things that do not seem clear. They are clothed in patterns from animals or plants; some are disguised in leaves or with fake moustaches. The figures inside are idling, whilst the groups outside appear busy. These contradictions reflect the precariousness of where our old world meets the new one. Influences in Makinson’s work range from the early Renaissance artist Sassetta to the twentieth-century British artist Stanley Spencer.