There, in 1969 he was discovered by Stanley Kubrick who used two of his works in his film A Clockwork Orange (1971): Rocking Machine and Christ Unlimited.

[1] Coincidentally, the Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass also used Rocking Machine in his film Dropout, starring Vanessa Redgrave.

Makkink worked alternately in Bramfield (Suffolk) and the Italian municipality of Molini di Triora, where he met and shared a great friendship with the Italian-Chilean surrealist painter, Mauricio Stella, who lived in Molini di Triora and then in Amsterdam.

One of his sculptures – a tubular shape executed in brick at the Spinozahof – was demolished in 1994 because, according to local residents, it obstructed their view.

He was survived by his daughter Fiona, two step-children, and his third wife and companion of several years, Julia Blackburn.