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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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.
Intuitively Mankin conjures with his surfaces 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 his 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 then coast itself - never static, always becoming.
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Scheduled exhibitions 2026
Odysseys, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery 24th September - 26 October 2026
Portals, Vanner Gallery April 14th - 17th May 2026
Previous Exhibitions
Contemporary Cornwall Painting Vanner Gallery, Salisbury 1 - 24 May 2025
Spring exhibition Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, until May 22nd
Interludes Solo Exhibition &Gallery, Edinburgh, September 6 - October 1st, 2025
Winter Group Exhibition Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance, Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Winter Group Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh, December 2024W
Frontiers Solo Exhibition Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, September 12 - October 12th
Distant Views 3th-28th February 2024 The &Gallery Edinburgh
London Art Fair 2024 January 17th -21st with The &Gallery Edinburgh
Voyages, Solo Exhibition Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, 30th August - 23rd September 2023
Uncharted Solo Exhibition &Gallery, Edinburgh, April 1st - 29th, 2023
Summer group exhibition, Cricket Fine Art, July-August 2022
Summer group exhibition Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, 1-24 September 2022
Passages, Solo Exhibition Cricket Fine Art, London June 22nd - July 9th 2022
London Art Fair 2022 with &Gallery, Edinburgh, 20-24th April 2022
Abstract meets Landscape, Group exhibition Gallery East, Woodbridge,
Suffolk, until May 5th, 2022
Autumn Exhibition, Moncrieff Bray, Sussex November 5th - December 24th 2021
Encounters, Solo Exhibition Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, 28 August-25 September 2021
Restless Coast, Group exhibition Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1 July - 1S ept 2021
Thresholds, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, 5th September to 3rd October 2020
Viewpoints, three person exhibition &Gallery, Edinburgh 7 March to 1 April 2020
Winter exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh 30 November to 23 December 2019
Winter exhibition, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, 19 November to 23 December 2019
Sightlines, Solo Exhibition Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, 24 August to 21 September 2019
Summer exhibition, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, July-August 2019
Summer exhibition, Cricket Fine Art, July-August 2019
Fresh Art Fair, Hadfield Fine Art, April 26th-28th
Spring exhibition Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, February 18th - March 30th 2019
Affordable Art Fair London, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery, London, March 6th-10th 2019
Perpetual Flux, Solo Exhibition Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, 26 Sept to 20th October 2018
Summer exhibition, Cricket Fine Art, July-September 2018
Affordable Art Fair London, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery, London, March 2018
Winter exhibition, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery Gallery, February 2018
10th Anniversary exhibition, Hadfield Fine Art, July 2017
Night Tide, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh July 2017
Elemental Two person show, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery Gallery, June 2017
Affordable Art Fair London, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery, March 2017
Winter Exhibition, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, January 2017
Autumn exhibition, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery, London, October 2016
'Think Twice' Shortlisted for National Open Art competition August 2016
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Cornwall Contemporary gallery, Penzance, August 2016
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead with Prince and Pilgrim, London, June 2016
'Imagine Falmouth' Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth May28th -July 16th, 2016
Spring collection, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, March 2016
Winter exhibition, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery, December 2015
Keep Human: Words for a value led life, Porthmeor Studios, Cornwall 2015
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Prince and Pilgrim, London, October 2015
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead with Prince and Pilgrim, London, June 2015
Small things matter, Badcocks gallery, March 2015
Winter exhibition, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery, December 2014
Affordable Art Fair, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery, London, October 2014
Summer exhibition, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery, London, 2014
Limbo contemporary art exhibition, Truro, Cornwall, 2013
Porthmeor studios residency, St Ives, Cornwall 2013
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