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.

Walking and immersing himself in the landscape is where his process begins.Thoughts unravel amongst the beauty of nature unlocking memories, feelings, emotions. Sensory pauses. Interludes. Spaces where connections are made charged with the rhythms, textures and moods of the coast. His work evokes the transient nature of the boundary between land and sea. Fleeting glimpses between storms, shifting light conditions, the quiet before the next wave. These works do not seek to describe the Cornish landscape, but to feel it, to immerse the viewer in its elemental presence. Each piece become visual interlude - an abstraction of the landscape’s mood rather than its form. A place for the viewer to pause, reflect, unearth meaning and memory.