Artist Focus :: David Mankin

&Gallery is thrilled to present David Mankin as the Artist Focus of this month ahead of his solo exhibition in April 2023.
Every month &Gallery will select one of its artist and highlight some of their work through a curated online presentation.

David Mankin lives and works in the south west of Cornwall and creates dynamic and vivid abstracted Cornish landscape paintings.

David’s abstract paintings not only draw inspiration from the dramatic Cornish coastline; the wild, empty moors; the big skies; but also the raw, physical elements of the landscape including the rocky outcrops; beach boulders; storm debris; winding farm tracks; surging seas and the ancient fields bordered with stone hedges. He enjoys getting out into the landscape and the elements that shape it – wind, sea, rain and man-made. These are the experiences that manifest themselves in his paintings.

Remembering In Paint

David Mankin

Featuring over 200 images of paintings, sketches and collages made between 2013-2021.

David Mankin is a contemporary painter of abstract landscapes based in Cornwall. A series of sell-out shows and a fast-expanding international following has generated widespread interest in how Mankin creates his evocative paintings. David Mankin: Remembering in paint explores his creative process in detail providing the reader access to the sources and influences that inform his work.

Reeve-Edwards investigates Mankin’s continually evolving studio practice: his sources, both external and internal, his methods, tools, and his materials. She places Mankin’s work and approach to painting within the wider context of the Action Painters and Abstract Expressionists of the mid-century, as well as exploring Mankin’s individual approach to abstract painting.

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Through my painting I aim to express something of the sensory experience of being in the landscape. Living and working in the far west of Cornwall is uniquely inspirational. Daily walks on the coast path near my studio provide a visual stimulation that can’t help but find its way onto the canvas.

Textures, colours, shapes, sounds, movements and spaces collide to create a wealth of visual and spatial relationships in constant flux. This is my source. The work is both an emotional response to the natural environment and an attempt to communicate a sense of the freedom, the vastness, the rhythm and the ebb and flow of nature, which is characteristic to this part of Cornwall.

I work in an intuitive and gestural way, burying and unearthing marks and textures through an energetic process of destruction and excavation, which mirrors the acts of nature on the landscape. Through the process I explore surface, shape, colour, texture, composition and mark making in order to articulate and form images which express my experiences in the Cornish landscape.

Residency :: The Pouch Cove Foundation :: November 2022

The Pouch Cove Foundation (PCF) has invited David for a 4-week residency in Canada.

The Pouch Cove Foundation runs a residency program since 1990 and has provided a retreat for more than one thousand visiting artists from around the world. Located in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada the PCF operates on an invitation-only basis and has invited David for a month this forthcoming November.

During this residency, David will be working on new pieces, some of which will be exhibited during his solo-exhibition with &Gallery in Spring 2023.

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DAVID MANKIN

Remembering In Paint

Residency :: The Pouch Cove Foundation :: November 2022

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