David Mankin – Odysseys
26 September – 24 October 2026
David Mankin
Kynance’s wondrous caves, roofed rich with glory
acrylic and mixed media with collaged flotsam on canvas
155 x 200cm ` £12,750
David Mankin
Loe Bar
acrylic and mixed media with collaged flotsam on canvas
122 x 152cm ` £8750
David Mankin
Where sharp spray tingles and wet cliffs shine
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
90 x 90cm
David Mankin
Odyssey 2016-2026
acrylic & mixed media on board
120 x 100cm £6250
David Mankin
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
122 x 122cm £6850
David Mankin
Your statue throws it shadow beyond the furthest wave
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm £5500
David Mankin
The mighty wind rises roaring seawards
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
90 x 90cm £5200
David Mankin
Pull of the tide
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
122 x 122cm £6850
David Mankin
The quietest places
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
80 x 80cm
David Mankin
The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm £5500
David Mankin
The tilted, orange half moon flares on headlands dark
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm
David Mankin
Steep gulfs and foaming crests
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
122 x 70cm £5650
David Mankin
Blossoms in the silence of the night
acrylic and mixed media on canvas
60 x 60cm £3575
David Mankin
The Todden, Cadgwith
acrylic & mixed media on wood
60 x 80cm
David Mankin
The Crowns, Botallack
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
David Mankin
Towards Portheras Cove
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
Wash of the tremulous tide
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
David Mankin
After storm-lit evening
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
The sea swung by
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
David Mankin
The landscape winking through the heat
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
David Mankin
In seashell whispers
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
The blaring white of the lighthouse (Pendeen)
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
The cliff ringed shore
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
David Mankin
Upon the cliffs warm slope
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
Here where I linger
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
Where deep cliffs loom
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
David Mankin
On the mirroring sands
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
Summer’s flashing sheen
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
The wind had warmed the wintry blue
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
Besides the idle summer sea
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
Breakers thundering to the shore
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
David Mankin
As thunder-drops fall onto a sleeping sea
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm £895
David Mankin
Interval of Sound
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 30cm £2275
David Mankin
As we approach the ocean roar
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
25 x 25cn £1275
David Mankin
Tumbling into the moon
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm £2695
David Mankin
The swallows glance and wheeled along the carne
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm
David Mankin
Porth Nanven
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm £2695
David Mankin
The freshness of the early world
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm £2695
David Mankin
Rising softly, from the fields of sleep
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
50 x 40cm £3275
David Mankin
The ever-summered solitudes
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm
David Mankin
High waving heather on hills of sand
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
50 x 40cm £3275
David Mankin
Hinterland 4
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
30 x 20cm £1495
David Mankin
The day’s last chase
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
36 x 28cm £2200
David Mankin
When the tide rushes from the rumbling caves
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
30 x 30cm
David Mankin
Curving flight across the black-girt bay
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
30 x 30cm
David Mankin
Pendour Cove
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
30 x 30cm
David Mankin
In golden rain of daffodils
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
25 x 25cm
David Mankin
A land of echoes
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
25 x 25cm
David Mankin
The wave ends, but sea remains
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
30 x 30cm £1795
David Mankin
The great winds shorewards blow (study)
acrylic & mixed media on paper
24 x 25cm
David Mankin
Song of the sea cave (study)
acrylic & mixed media on paper
27 x 24cm £1275
David Mankin
On a winter sea
acrylic & mixed media on paper
24 x 25cm
David Mankin
Whirling shags around the mizzen peaks
Whirling shags around the mizzen peaks
24 x 25cm
David Mankin
On the frontier cliffs (study)
acrylic & mxed media on paper
24 x 25cm £1275
David Mankin
Wail of the wild gale
acrylic & mixed media on paper
25 x 25cm £1275
David Mankin
Spring at Bedruthan
crayon, pen and pastel and on paper
21 x 30cm £1200
David Mankin
Shadowed coves on a sunny shore
Collage, acrylic and mixed media on paper
14 x 33cm £1495
David Mankin
Ember of Time
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
40 x 40cm £2695
David Mankin
Across the slip of blue
acrylic & mixed media on wood panel
20 x 20cm
DAVID MANKIN – ODYSSEYS 26 SEPTEMBER – 24 OCTOBER 2026
“For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces – an event rather than an appearance.” Bridget Riley
David Mankin’s paintings are born from a sustained engagement with the landscape, but they are never obvious descriptions of place. His canvases conjure sensation and fleeting human experiences, crystallising the physical world into something more elusive: a language of colour, abstract forms, gesture, rhythm and emotion. Odysseys is both a celebration of this and a reflection on the remarkable journey that has brought Mankin to be internationally collected and renowned as a contemporary abstract expressionist painter.
The title Odysseys alludes to adventurous journeys of exploration, discovery, encounters and moments of revelation. Mankin has developed a distinctive language of painting built through layers of mark-making, expressive brushwork and a unique handling of colour and composition.
Cornwall remains his source, this wild ancient land on the edge of Atlantic ocean sculpted by the elements. The paintings in this body of work are records of an ongoing search, a dedicated passion to discover what landscape can become when it is filtered through memory, emotion and the imagination.
His process begins with looking and observing; walking, photographing, sketching and gathering fragments of sensory information from the landscape. It is through sifting, editing, cropping, and the act of painting back in his studio that these observations are transformed. What permeates his canvases is not a particular viewpoint, but a distillation of the spirit of place. The viewer is invited to confront somewhere or something recognisable yet undefined, where colour evokes an atmosphere, a mark can recall a fleeting moment and a composition can trigger a long forgotten memory.
This exhibition is Mankin’s 6th solo exhibition at Cornwall Contemporary and his 10th solo exhibition in twelve years, a significant milestone in a career that has developed with extraordinary momentum. Alongside the paintings, Odysseys also marks the publication of his second monograph, David Mankin Language of Paint, following David Mankin Remembering in Paint, published in 2021. Together, these books provide a deep insight into an artist whose emergent art practice is rooted in the process of change, risk and transition.
With a growing community of more than 150,000 followers and collectors across the world, Mankin’s voyages in paint have become an ongoing artistic odyssey, driven by curiosity, restlessness and the conviction that there is always a new and better way of seeing.
Sarah Brittain-Mansbridge MBE Direc tor , Cornwall Contemporary
Preorder the exhibition catalogue here
Signed copies of the new book Language of Paint will be available to purchase in the gallery (not by mail order)
