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As an artist esteemed for his expressive portraits -- some of which are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra -- [David Naseby] is surprised that he recently found his most individual \"mark\" through the genre of landscape painting. Yarrawonga is noted for its golf courses, and Naseby was there to play with friends. But having landed most of his shots in the Murray, Naseby went for a drive in a hire car. \"I skidded straight into this big tree which stopped me from going into the river,\" Naseby says. While waiting for the tow truck, Naseby sketched the dead, twisted trees by the side of the long- suffering Murray.

The [John Gorton] portrait is by Sydney artist David Naseby, whose works have hung in the Archibald Prize. The Gorton portrait was rejected from the 1996 prize, although it did hang in the Salon des Refuses. Naseby recalls the first sitting in Gorton's Vaucluse home, where Sir John, then aged 85, asked that he be called \"John\". \"We arrived about 11 o'clock and within minutes John had offered me a drink, saying he was about to have one,\" Naseby says. \"As I was quite nervous, I accepted and he came back minutes later with a glass which would have held at least four fingers of scotch.\"

Richard Flanagan smiles warily. Flanagan, the award-winning author of Gould's Book of Fish, is [Geoff Dyer]'s drinking mate and subject of the painting that won the Archibald for Dyer in his seventh time as a finalist. Flanagan confirmed the hero of Gould's Book of Fish -- the lying, murderous yet irresistible Billy Gould -- was inspired by Dyer. Another Archibald finalist, David Naseby, can't resist stirring Dyer.

[David Colt] at first announces he will tell the truth and shame the devil. He must, after all, preserve the honour of the university and, for Sir [Edgar Naseby]'s own good, remove him before his drinking gets him into worse trouble. But couldn't Colt be motivated by just a teeny bit of envy and spite? The university rejected his own application, and he now teaches at the insignificant Orwell College. And, considering that Naseby can decide whether Colt's first article is published, would the truth, however admirable in principle, actually be a good idea?