Encounters 2021

Encounters is Mankin's 3rd solo exhibition with Cornwall Contemporary Gallery in Penzance, West Cornwall, 28th August -25th September 2021.

There is a poetic quality to the way Mankin surveys and absorbs the Cornish landscape. He searches for and
amasses visual encounters to describe the experience and emotions of a time and a place. When Mankin carries these back to his studio, both physically and psychologically, he will unleash them on to his canvases like a poet stringing together metaphors.

‘As a painter every day is an encounter, not only with the canvas you’re working on, but with the materials, the choice of colour, the paint application, and the tools. My process is one of intuition, change, transition, improvisation, embracing accidents and taking risks, to see how far I can take a painting.’