Since his arrival in Sydney from Christchurch in 1981, Macleod's development has been parallelled by the progress - within the paintings themselves - of a lone figure traversing land, sea and sky. This figure is at once Everyman and he is the painter himself. Macleod's canvases are both an awakening and a laying to rest of ghosts. Like Virgil in Dante's Divine Comedy, the walking figure leads the viewer towards new ways of seeing and experiencing the world.