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Mankin | Goemans

5th September – 3rd October 2020

Botallack

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Botallack

acrylic & mixed media on cradled wood panel
20 x 20cm

Echoing Breakers Swell

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Echoing Breakers Swell

acrylic & mixed media on canvas with collage
122 x 122cm

Heaping Tide

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Heaping Tide

acrylic & mixed media on paper
21 x 21cm

Breeze of Morning Moves

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Breeze of Morning Moves

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm

Boundless

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Boundless

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
60 x 60cm

Cadgwith

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Cadgwith

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
102 x 102cm

Mighty Rollers Mount

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Mighty Rollers Mount

acrylic & mixed media on cradled wood panel
20 x 20cm

Murderous Brisons Flail

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Murderous Brisons Flail

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
50 x 50cm

Porthcurno

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Porthcurno

acrylic & mixed media on canvas with collage
95 x 120cm

The Threshold Sea

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The Threshold Sea

acrylic & mixed media on wooden panel
15 x 46cm

The Sea Swept On

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The Sea Swept On

acrylic & mixed media on cradled wood panel
20 x 20cm

The Place Ahead

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The Place Ahead

acrylic & mixed media on paper
21 x 21cm

The limpid Spread of Air Cerulean

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The limpid Spread of Air Cerulean

acrylic & mixed media on paper
21 x 21cm

The Dazzling Prospect Breaks

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The Dazzling Prospect Breaks

acrylic & mixed media on paper
21 x 21cm

Stormed- Lashed Precipices

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Stormed- Lashed Precipices

acrylic & mixed media on cradled wood panel
20 x 20cm

Sojourn

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Sojourn

acrylic & mixed media on canvas
50 x 50cm

Upon the Pulsing Sea

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Upon the Pulsing Sea

acrylic & mixed media on paper
21 x 21cm

The Waves Seemed Far Away

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The Waves Seemed Far Away

acrylic & mixed media on paper
24 x 25cm

Rococo III

Melanie Goemans
Rococo III

oil, 22ct gold leaf & acrylic on linen
43 x 43cm £785

Rococo II

Melanie Goemans
Rococo II

oil, 22ct gold leaf & acrylic on linen
43 x 43cm £785

Rococo V

Melanie Goemans
Rococo V

oil, 22ct gold leaf & acrylic on linen
63 x 63cm £1425

Resplendent Tree

Melanie Goemans
Resplendent Tree

oil & 22ct gold leaf on linen
95 x 110cm £3750

Pink Jasmine

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Pink Jasmine

acrylic & copper leaf on panel
23 x 23cm

I thought of questions that have no reply

Melanie Goemans
I thought of questions that have no reply

oil, acrylic & 19ct gold leaf
103 x 103cm £3250

Long I Stood

Melanie Goemans
Long I Stood

oil, acrylic & 22ct gold leaf on canvas
103 x 103cm £3250

Goldfinch Diptych

Melanie Goemans
Goldfinch Diptych

oil, 19ct gold leaf & acrylic on linen
63 x 126cm £2900 (£1450 each)

Rococo IV

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Rococo IV

oil, 22ct gold leaf & acrylic on linen
63 x 63cm

Love-in-a-Mist

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Love-in-a-Mist

acrylic & copper leaf on panel
23 x 23cm

David Mankin – Thresholds  |  5th September – 3rd October 2020

“An elemental realism comes across in David Mankin’s work. Although the visual perspective constantly shifts within his canvas from the sea shore to a horizon line; the pattern of lichen on a rock to an aerial view of the coastline, the paintings capture an experiential truth. His abstract techniques allow this to come through, precisely because the dramatic and rebellious Cornish landscape refuses to be confined in representational work. This feeling and essence of the landscape is in every brushmark hitting the canvas, and combined with the undeniable beauty of the work, is perhaps why so many people have related to and fallen in love with his paintings.
Mankin physically attacks the canvas with a certain degree of attitude, scratching into it, splattering large arcs of paint made with
enormous sweeps of the arm. Sometimes the artist will draw his compositional outline onto the canvas in charcoal, but he will always eradicate it, making a point of constantly changing direction: the wind forcing the cliff-edge-tamarisk one way, then another. In this sense, his way of painting is deeply expressive, it consistently follows the feelings he has about the landscape, the change and flux of it, its unpredictability, the way the weather physically changes it, its inability to be contained: this is what excites Mankin. Thus in his unprescribed painting process we can see he almost inhabits the fluctuating personality of the Cornish landscape.
The artist himself is an elemental force, filling up every available space within his work like water, refusing to crawl back from any boundary but hitting it with his full force until it breaks apart, picking up the pieces and rearranging them on a canvas so we can
step inside his world and feel the wind take our breath away.”
Kate Reeve-Edwards, Arts Writer
Excerpt from ‘Widening the Horizon’ essay, www.culturalcapitalarts.co.uk

Melanie Goemans – Long I Stood  |  5th September – 3rd October 2020

“Each painting in this collection began with a walk: an object found, a photograph taken, a thought that occurred.
I am drawn to the incidental things we might rush past and not notice – the unstudied natural world in between everything else. My paintings draw attention to these overlooked forms, using traditional materials to mark their significance.
I am intrigued by complicated patterns of line. Drawing loose lines with a fine brush feels almost like stitching or weaving.
This work is from the heart, the things I see that I love… and for the titles, often quotations from poems that share the same idea or feeling, by Frost, Hardy, Oliver.”

Melanie Goemans grew up in the Lincolnshire fens, spending time in Italy before
studying Florentine Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art (BA and MA)
followed by Fine Art, Painting at Cheltenham School of Art (MA). After a series of
residencies and teaching posts, she relocated from London to Cambridgeshire and now works from her studio in central Ely. Over her career, Melanie has exhibited in group and solo shows across the UK including the Florence Trust, London; Jerwood Space, London; Bridgeman Gallery, London and Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance.
Her work is held in corporate and private collections in the UK and overseas and has been selected for the National Open Art Competition, the ING Discerning Eye
Exhibition and Stage 2 of the John Moores Painting Prize (2020).

 

 

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