David Mankin: Interludes

David Mankin is a British painter known for his compelling abstractions of the landscape. His paintings explore form, colour and surface, drawing on a deep well of mark-making techniques and painterly expression embodying risk and change. Cornwall is his source, an ancient, wild landscape surrounded by sea and carved out by the perpetual flux of the elements.

Intuitively, Mankin conjures with these interludes using a layered, gestural approach, bringing together opposing forces in a single composition: fullness and space, simplicity and complexity, control and freedom. His layered, transitional approach is rooted in the idea of palimpsest, reworking existing forms and pushing the canvas beyond its limits. Artistic freedom characterises these new paintings, bringing together the raw, fresh energy of paint application with rich mark-making, resulting in works that resonate on an emotional level. Works that create a rhythm of stillness and movement, like the coast itself - never static, always becoming