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David Mankin

A land of echoes
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A land of echoes

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
25 x 25cm
Across the slip of blue
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Across the slip of blue

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
After storm-lit evening

After storm-lit evening

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
£895
As thunder-drops fall onto a sleeping sea

As thunder-drops fall onto a sleeping sea

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
£895
As we approach the ocean roar

As we approach the ocean roar

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
25 x 25cn
£1275
Besides the Dusky Sea

Besides the Dusky Sea

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
144 x 126cm
£7500
Besides the idle summer sea
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Besides the idle summer sea

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
Blossoms in the silence of the night

Blossoms in the silence of the night

acrylic and mixed media on canvas
60 x 60cm
£3575
Breakers thundering to the shore
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Breakers thundering to the shore

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
By the deep sea, and music in its roar

By the deep sea, and music in its roar

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
122 x 122cm
£6850
Curving flight across the black-girt bay
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Curving flight across the black-girt bay

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Ember of Time

Ember of Time

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm
£2695
Full of Sunlit Dancing Places

Full of Sunlit Dancing Places

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm
£4995
Here where I linger

Here where I linger

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
£895
High waving heather on hills of sand

High waving heather on hills of sand

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
50 x 40cm
£3275
Hinterland 4

Hinterland 4

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
30 x 20cm
£1495
In golden rain of daffodils
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In golden rain of daffodils

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
25 x 25cm
In seashell whispers

In seashell whispers

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
£895
Interval of Sound
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Interval of Sound

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 30cm
Kynance’s wondrous caves, roofed rich with glory

Kynance’s wondrous caves, roofed rich with glory

acrylic and mixed media with collaged flotsam on canvas
155 x 200cm `
£12,750
Lapping in Bliss

Lapping in Bliss

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
25 x 25cm
£1100
Lit By Our Distance Journeys

Lit By Our Distance Journeys

acrylic & mixed media on cradled wood panel
10 x 15cm
£475
Loe Bar

Loe Bar

acrylic and mixed media with collaged flotsam on canvas
122 x 152cm `
£8750
Morning Sheds her Light

Morning Sheds her Light

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm
£4995
Nut Smell of Gorse and Honey-Smell of Ling

Nut Smell of Gorse and Honey-Smell of Ling

acrylic & mixed media on paper
24 x 36cm
£1400
Odyssey 2016-2026

Odyssey 2016-2026

acrylic & mixed media on board
120 x 100cm
£6250
On a winter sea
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On a winter sea

acrylic & mixed media on paper
24 x 25cm
On the frontier cliffs (study)
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On the frontier cliffs (study)

acrylic & mxed media on paper
24 x 25cm
On the mirroring sands

On the mirroring sands

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
£895
Pendour Cove
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Pendour Cove

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Porth Nanven

Porth Nanven

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm
£2695
Pull of the tide

Pull of the tide

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
122 x 122cm
£6850
Rise by the Shores of the Solitary Ocean

Rise by the Shores of the Solitary Ocean

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
120 x 90cm
£5850
Rising softly, from the fields of sleep

Rising softly, from the fields of sleep

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
50 x 40cm
£3275
Scalloped-Edged Waves

Scalloped-Edged Waves

acrylic & mixed media on cradled wood panel
10 x 15cm
£475
Setting Sail in the Unbounded Light

Setting Sail in the Unbounded Light

acrylic & mixed media on paper
21 x 21cm
£875
Shadowed coves on a sunny shore

Shadowed coves on a sunny shore

Collage, acrylic and mixed media on paper
14 x 33cm
£1495
Song of the sea cave (study)

Song of the sea cave (study)

acrylic & mixed media on paper
27 x 24cm
£1275
Spring at Bedruthan

Spring at Bedruthan

crayon, pen and pastel and on paper
21 x 30cm
£1200
Steep gulfs and foaming crests

Steep gulfs and foaming crests

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
122 x 70cm
£5650
Storm-Swept, Heather Hung Lands End
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Storm-Swept, Heather Hung Lands End

acrylic & mixed media on paper
21 x 21cm
Summer’s flashing sheen

Summer’s flashing sheen

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
£895
Swell of Summer’s Ocean
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Swell of Summer’s Ocean

acrylic & mixed media on cradled wood panel
20 x 20cm
The blaring white of the lighthouse (Pendeen)
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The blaring white of the lighthouse (Pendeen)

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
The cliff ringed shore
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The cliff ringed shore

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
The Crowns, Botallack
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The Crowns, Botallack

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
The day’s last chase

The day’s last chase

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
36 x 28cm
£2200
The ever-summered solitudes
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The ever-summered solitudes

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm
The freshness of the early world

The freshness of the early world

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm
£2695
The landscape winking through the heat
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The landscape winking through the heat

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze

The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm
£5500
The mighty wind rises roaring seawards

The mighty wind rises roaring seawards

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
90 x 90cm
£5200
The Night-Winds Sigh, The Breakers Roar

The Night-Winds Sigh, The Breakers Roar

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
25 x 25cm
£1100
The quietest places
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The quietest places

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
80 x 80cm
The sea swung by
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The sea swung by

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
The swallows glance and wheeled along the carne
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The swallows glance and wheeled along the carne

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm
The tilted, orange half moon flares on headlands dark
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The tilted, orange half moon flares on headlands dark

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm
The Todden, Cadgwith
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The Todden, Cadgwith

acrylic & mixed media on wood
60 x 80cm
The wave ends, but sea remains

The wave ends, but sea remains

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
30 x 30cm
£1795
The wind had warmed the wintry blue
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The wind had warmed the wintry blue

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
Towards Portheras Cove

Towards Portheras Cove

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
£895
Tumbling into the moon

Tumbling into the moon

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm
£2695
Tumbling Towards the Sea-Cliffs

Tumbling Towards the Sea-Cliffs

acrylic & mixed media on paper
30 x 42cm
£1975
Upon the cliffs warm slope

Upon the cliffs warm slope

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
£895
Wail of the wild gale

Wail of the wild gale

acrylic & mixed media on paper
25 x 25cm
£1275
Wash of the tremulous tide
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Wash of the tremulous tide

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
When the tide rushes from the rumbling caves
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When the tide rushes from the rumbling caves

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
30 x 30cm
Where deep cliffs loom
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Where deep cliffs loom

acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
Where sharp spray tingles and wet cliffs shine
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Where sharp spray tingles and wet cliffs shine

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
90 x 90cm
Whirling shags around the mizzen peaks
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Whirling shags around the mizzen peaks

Whirling shags around the mizzen peaks
24 x 25cm
Your statue throws it shadow beyond the furthest wave

Your statue throws it shadow beyond the furthest wave

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm
£5500
Zennor Head

Zennor Head

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
122 x 152cm
£7950

“Through my painting I aim to express something of the sensory experience of being in the landscape. Living and working in the far west of Cornwall is uniquely inspirational. Daily walks on the coast path near my studio provide a visual stimulation that can’t help but find its way onto the canvas. Textures, colours, shapes, sounds, movements and spaces collide to create a wealth of visual and spatial relationships in constant flux. This is my source. The work is both an emotional response to the natural environment and an attempt to communicate a sense of the freedom, the vastness, the rhythm and the ebb and flow of nature, which is characteristic to this part of Cornwall. I work in an intuitive and gestural way, burying and unearthing marks and textures through an energetic process of destruction and excavation, which mirrors the acts of nature on the landscape. Through the process I explore surface, shape, colour, texture, composition and mark making in order to articulate and form images which express my experiences in the Cornish landscape”

David Mankin lives and works in the south west of Cornwall. His dynamic and vivid abstracted Cornish landscape paintings have been exhibited in Cornwall, Scotland and London and he has shown in a number of London art fairs. His paintings are in numerous private and corporate art collections around the world including office spaces in Paris and South Africa. David’s abstract paintings not only draw inspiration from the dramatic Cornish coastline; the wild, empty moors; the big skies; but also the raw, physical elements of the landscape including the rocky outcrops; beach boulders; storm debris; winding farm tracks; surging seas and the ancient fields bordered with stone hedges. He enjoys getting out into the landscape and the elements that shape it – wind, sea, rain and man-made. These are the experiences that manifest themselves in his paintings. The book ‘Remembering in Paint’ written by Kate Reeve-Edwards, with a foreword by Sarah Brittain-Mansbridge, was published by Sansom Press in 2021 and is an extensive and beautifully produced publication about the work of David Mankin. In 2019, English Heritage commissioned David to produce a painting in response to Tintagel and the work was reproduced on the cover of their members handbook. In 2022 David was invited to do an artist residency at Pouch Cove in Newfoundland. His 2023 solo exhibition ‘Voyages’ at Cornwall Contemporary marked ten years since David became a full time exhibiting artist.

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