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I have seen his status rise significantly in the art world and his reputation confirmed as one of the most exciting Abstract Expressionist painters to emerge in recent years. I have curated exhibitions in Cornwall for the last 24 years and rarely, if ever, have I seen an artist create more of a devoted following than David Mankin. His unique perspective on the Cornish landscape manages to provoke more depth of feeling, emotion, and excitement amongst art collectors and admirers, than most other artists I know. (Sarah Brittain-Mansbridge, Director, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery)
David Mankin is a contemporary painter of abstract landscapes based in Cornwall. A series of sell-out solo exhibitions and a fast-expanding international following has generated widespread interest in how Mankin has developed and continues to employ a distinctive painterly language to create his evocative paintings and communicate the sensory experience of being in the landscape.
David Mankin: Language in Paint follows on from the hugely successful David Mankin: Remembering in Paint published in 2021 exploring his language of painting in detail together with his evolving creative process. David Mankin Language of Paint gives unrivalled access to the sources and influences that inform his work and for the first time to his much admired sketchbooks, the essence of his language of paint.
Alison Bevan looks into Mankin’s continually evolving art practice: his core subject, his internal drivers, his methods, philosophies tools, and his materials. She places Mankin’s work and approach to painting within the wider context of the Action Painters and Abstract Expressionists of the mid-century, as well as exploring and interrogating Mankin’s abstracted language.
Through its pages the reader can gain a remarkable insight into the artist’s work and how he has created a unique voice through unearthing, dscovering and developing a language of paint together with his profound attachment to the Cornish landscape.
