Artist edition print by Mitchell English.

The original ‘Heatwave in Van Dyke Brown’ was a finalist in the prestigious Clayton Utz Art Award, presented in partnership with Brisbane’s Lethbridge Gallery.

For Mitch, the coastline is less a backdrop than a study in colour, heat and human connection.

“I paint what it feels like—the warmth on your skin, the looseness in the air, the sense of being unguarded,” he says

This is the driving force behind the Heatwave series: works that capture the emotional immediacy of a hot Australian day through colour, posture and the relationships between figures.

Location: Noosa Heads, QLD Australia