Mitchell English
Gallery
MITCH ENGLISH Heatwave South Steyne 95 x 125cm acrylic on linen with tasmanian oak float frame $ 3,300.00
MITCH ENGLISH Heatwave South End 95 x 125cm acrylic on linen with tasmanian oak float frame $ 3,300.00
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MITCH ENGLISH Heatwave South Steyne 95 x 125cm acrylic on linen with tasmanian oak float frame $ 3,300.00
MITCH ENGLISH Heatwave South End 95 x 125cm acrylic on linen with tasmanian oak float frame $ 3,300.00
Bio + CV
Mitchell English is an Australian artist with over three decades of experience, exhibiting throughout Australia and overseas. His work's are held in both public and private collections worldwide. Mitch has made a point of never living more than walking distance to the sea, an avid surfer, his paintings speak of time wasted beautifully in search of the perfect wave. He currently resides and paints in the sea-side community of Noosa Heads in Queensland, Australia, where in Mitch’s words ‘some of the best waves in the world can be found’. Mitch studied Fine Art at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney and has a Masters in Design from the University of Western Sydney where he later lectured in Visual Arts. Mitch is also a ceramicist and has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Object Gallery Sydney. Mitch’s paintings, ceramics and interiors have been featured in numerous design publications, including Taschen, Elle Décor and Vogue Living.
ARTIST STATEMENT
"I’m currently working in acrylics and enjoy what I call ‘the immediacy’ of the paint application to canvas. As opposed to oil paint, you have to work very quickly, with the resulting paintings exuding energy and vigour. I also like to work on a number of canvasses simultaneously, this 'staggered’ approach to painting and finishing a work means that there are multiple considerations at play at any given time. A painting in its early stages may look nothing like the finished result. Overpainting is something I very much enjoy and that is the beauty of painting, it can hide a multitude of sins!
Working from photographs taken by myself and from an extensive back catalogue of magazines and books that I have collected over many years, the most common recurring image is that which I utilise for the ‘Heatwave’ works. This image is of Bondi in the mid eighties, when hats were unfashionable and skin cancer was not a part of the conversation. In those days people looked out to sea instead of at their phones.
I won’t lie. I am a surfer first and foremost and a painter second. But I paint better than I surf ! One is an obsession, the other a necessity. You work it out." - Mitch English