"Daniel"

"Daniel" 
 Kerry Wright, 1979 
Oils on canvas
60cm x 50cm (24in x 20in)

Daniel and I have been friends for over 50 years. He kindly agreed to sit for this portrait in 1979, when he was 30. Daniel's Croatian heritage, courtesy of his father, is clearly evident here in the  prominent aquiline features, heavily hooded eyes and luxuriant leonine hair, all of which contributes to his somberly melancholic demeanour and expression of  bemused cynicism.