The portraits of the pair will be on show to the public along with other works in the Journeys West exhibition which opens at Orange Regional Gallery on Friday night.

Mr Caulfield said when sitting for the portrait painted by award winning artist and Archibald finalist Sally Green he was a little unnerved.

“As a film-maker and film producer I am used to directing and observing other people,” he said.

However he says he is struck with the incredible likeness portrayed in the painting.

“In many ways its like looking in the mirror,” he said.

Doone Grist says her portrait has captured her in a way which most people are not privy to seeing - dressing down in her “wellies” and favourite farm hat and sitting on the porch of a back shed on the family property with a pensive and relaxed look on her face.

“We have a family connection with Sally Ryan so when she asked if I would sit for the portrait I thought it would be fun, and as she was looking for another well-known person the first one I thought of was Michael,” she said.

“I had to sit down for an hour and not move while I was posing for the portrait - that’s not something I do very often,” she said.

Mr Caulfield said he is impressed with the fine detail portrayed by the artist.

“It is almost reminiscent of the Caravaggio style,” he said.

The Italian artist Caravaggio was considered to be a pioneer of the baroque style.

The two portraits in the exhibition are done in oils on linen.

Also in the exhibition is another striking lifelike portrait of Dr Catherine Hamlin which was a 2013 Archibald Prize finalist.

Also opening at the Orange Regional Gallery on Friday night is Chris Langlois’s Points in Time in gallery two and Wicked Women - portraits of Australian women inspired by pulp fiction and film noir “femmes fatales” in Gallery Three.

The Travelling West exhibition comprises works of thirty-six artists from as far afield as Maleny in Queensland to Jervis Bay who have come together to create the experience of travelling west to Orange.

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