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What you'll learn
Remembering in Paint takes you on a transformative journey from the landscape to expressive abstraction. Filmed in David’s studio and across four stunning locations throughout Cornwall plus live interactive sessions at one of his sell-out in-person Remembering in Paint abstract landscape courses with Coombe Farm Studios.
You’ll learn to observe, document, deconstruct, and re-imagine the landscape — then translate those impressions into paintings that feel alive, personal, and emotionally resonant.
Using a powerful, repeatable creative framework, the course helps you:
• Discover your creative core
• Understand your why — what you truly want to communicate
• Work with greater boldness, intuition, and expressive energy
• Build paintings with depth, texture, and gestural mark-making
• Move from observation → experimentation → abstraction → finished work
• Develop a sourcebook/journal that becomes a lifelong wellspring of ideas
This is not just a painting course — it’s a way of seeing, remembering, and reconnecting with the landscape. A springboard to help you develop
your own unique artistic voice
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for all levels, including:
• Emerging and established artists
• Painters seeking more freedom, expression, and intention
• Artists who want a structured yet intuitive creative framework
• Anyone looking to develop a unique visual language and define their art practice
• Those who feel stuck or want to push their work to a deeper place
What you'll learn
Across four immersive modules (4 hours total), you’ll explore:
1. Your Creative Core
Get clarity on your subject, your emotional connection to the landscape, and what you want your paintings to express.
Learn to filter ideas, distill inspiration, and set up a personal creative framework.
2. Documenting the Landscape
Learn to see the world through the lens of abstraction.
You’ll explore:
• Abstract photography
• Sketching methods
• Dynamic and free mark-making
• Recording landscape details
• Creating a sourcebook/scrapbook for ongoing inspiration
You’ll capture memory, movement, texture, and emotion — not just “what’s there.”
3. The Creative Process
Transform documentation into ideas through:
• Photo grids
• Making dynamic collages
• sketches
• Cropping process to discover compositions
• Working on paper to generate powerful visual starting points
This stage builds the bridge from noticing → interpreting → expressing.
4. Transformation Through Learning
Move to canvas. Build expressive surfaces that feel more like you
Learn:
• How to build compositions with intention
• Creating depth through layered texture
• Being bolder, more gestural, and emotionally connected
• Editing dramatically and fearlessly
• Allowing the painting to change — and allowing yourself to change with it
This is where everything comes alive.
What’s Included
4 hours of high-quality video lessons
12 months access
Downloadable reference materials
• Over 100 abstract landscape photos taken by David
• 50 Photo grids and collages created by David
• Detailed exercise sheets
• Inspiration films of iconic Cornish landscapes to immerse yourself in
Recommended book reading list
Materials List
✔ Private Facebook community
Share work, ask questions, stay inspired. Keep making art.
The Transformation You Can Expect
By the end of the course, you will:
• See the landscape in a new, more abstract way
• Understand what drives your creativity
• Develop a clear, personal artistic direction
• Feel more confident, expressive, and connected in your work
• Have a fully curated sourcebook for future inspiration
• Create paintings that feel alive, dynamic, and uniquely yours
This is a journey into memory, emotion, freedom — and your creative truth.
ARTIST BIO
Meet David, Your Mentor
David Mankin is a renowned British painter known for his compelling abstractions of landscape with:
• 12 years of professional practice
• 10 solo exhibitions
• 150,000+ followers worldwide
• Paintings collected internationally in public and private collections
• Bestselling artist book. David Mankin Remembering in Paint
• Sell-out 3/5 day in-person Remembering in Paint courses at Coombe Farm Studios
David’s depth of experience and clarity of teaching make this course uniquely powerful — not just technical, but emotional, reflective, and transformative.
