Mitchell Cheesman 'What The Blue Note Wrote On Brick Mountain'

MITCHELL CHEESMAN

What The Blue Note Wrote On Brick Mountain

15 January – 1 February 2026

What The Blue Note Wrote On Brick Mountain When I came up with the title it was instantly appealing, appearing to me as to what could be the title of an unknown Penguin’s Classic novel from the 1920’s sitting at the dusty back shelf of the Buderim Rare Bookshop situated just up the hill from where I live & paint.

The story, although undiscovered by many, contains outbursts of blind freedom contrasting to the structural boundaries built by bricks at the other end, shaping an atmosphere of poems in the form of bold tactility.

A visual travel book accommodating houses, signs, statues, gardens, sounds, scents, swans, shadows and half-pence.

Wherever I go, alone or not, I will sit and draw and gather my surroundings, collecting everything I feel and marking it into the blank page, real landscapes reimagined.

Nature is the only reason I can paint, it is the subject. Collecting small parts of nature and placing them together on a surface, is why the paintings appear the way they do.

Poet’s are collectors, observers and pourers of the world & I’m a poet of paint.

Mitchell Cheesman 2026

Ravi Coltrane At The Blue Note Oil, Wax & Graphite on Canvas Diptych 180cm x 280cm $22,000

Goodbye Table With Venus Fly Trap & Victorian Tree Stump Oil & Wax on Canvas 180cm x 160cm $11,000

Restaurant Hubert In The Quiet Hours With One Loud Laugh Oil on Canvas 180cm x 140cm $9,900

Windy Lunch Time In Launceston (With No Lunch) Oil & Wax on Canvas 122cm x 122cm On Hold

Tall - Short, Pick Me With Hood On & Earphones In Oil, Wax & Canvas Collage on Cotton 122cm x 122cm $8,800

Count The Cobbles When Checked In Salamanca Oil & Wax on Cotton 122cm x 122cm $8,800

The Stairs Down The Hill Oil on Canvas 120cm x 100cm $6,600

Cat Church, Meet You There Oil on Canvas 120cm x 100cm $6,600

Twisted Stump & Still Life Oil on Canvas Mounted on Cotton 102cm x 76cm On Hold

Swans Dancing Under Lampshade Oil on Cotton 102cm x 76cm $4,400

Sculpture Builds Itself (Venus) Oil & Wax on Canvas 102cm x 76cm SOLD

The Restitched Rug With Red Tongue Fly Trap’s Oil on Canvas 102cm x 76cm SOLD

Feel Hot, Feel Cold Half Dream About Anything & Everything (The Hotel Windsor) Oil & Wax on Cotton 102cm x 76cm SOLD

The Oily Tubes & The Chicken Oil on Canvas 76cm x 61cm $2,750

Large Berry Palette Oil on Canvas 76cm x 61cm SOLD

Handmade Italian Terracotta Florentine Oil & Wax on Canvas 76cm x 61cm SOLD

Blue Japanese Ceramic Tower Oil, Wax & Canvas Collage on Cotton 76cm x 61cm $2,750

Best Of Old & New (Small House In Hobart) Oil on Canvas 76cm x 61cm SOLD

A Section Of Light Amongst The Cardboard Boxes (Bouquet With Painting List) Oil on Canvas 76cm x 61cm SOLD

White Rose Bush In Carlton North Oil on Canvas 61cm x 51cm SOLD

What Is Weaved Oil on Canvas 61cm x 51cm SOLD

Traditional Still Life 2 (colourised) Oil on Canvas 52cm x 40cm SOLD

Traditional Still Life With Venus Fly Trap (Study) Oil & Wax on Linen 50cm x 40cm SOLD

The G Contemporary 6/32 Hastings Street Laguna on Hastings Noosa Heads QLD 4567 art@thegcontemporary.com www.thegcontemporary.com @thegcontemporary

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