Portrait of Tasmanian writer Christopher Koch as a Young Man

My latest work. This is just a detail as the portrait includes head and  torso.

Semi-finalist in the Doug Moran portrait Prize 2015

The whole can be seen on my website:

www.arttasmania.com

The subject of the portrait died in 2013 at a good age.  The portrait aims to show that this is from another time and that the image is moving into the background and not emerging out of it. Young Christopher Koch had just won  Fulbright Scholarship, and was part of a group which spent  one year at Stanford which included Ken Keasy and Larry McMurtry, Jim Hall, Gurney Norman, among others. All young writers, mentored by Frank O'?onnor in the Jones Room at Stanford.

This portrait is at a time when Christopher Koch had just finished his first novel "The Boys In the Island", and went on to write many more, one of which was     "The Year of Living Dangerously".

Ken Keasy was writing "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest"  at the time, and     Larry McMurtry wrote about that period in his book "All My Friends are Going to be Strangers".   Some of Larry's other books include: "The Last Picture Show",  "Leaving Cheyenne", Lonesome Dove",  "Terms of Endearment", among others.