DAVID MANKIN
The word ‘passage’ anchors the work displayed in this exhibition. It is a capricious word, meaning many things at once: a path, a change, a channel, a collection of words, a happening, a detail. It is as layered as the Cornish landscape that inspires Mankin; as mercurial as the process of painting; as multifaceted as the viewer’s rapport with the finished piece. Mankin walks through the land, collecting visual moments, noticing aesthetic correlations, and allowing the mood of the day to wash over him. To walk in nature is to notice the rhythm of time and season. Each day will bring a change: an extra moment of sunlight, the yellow opening of a gorse bud, the seep of a tide line. All these instances are indicators of passages of time, and it is this constant rhythmic change which charges Mankin’s canvases with movement. This collection of visual encounters and sensory experiences which indicate a passage of natural change, inspires shifting thought patterns. Observers of the landscape, our thoughts change in response to the environment, the weather, the time of year. It is these journeys of thought, often chaotic in the way they fluctuate, which Mankin explores on the canvas: he is exteriorising the internal. The studio space, the blank canvas, and his vacillating thoughts are the spaces where another passage begins: the passage of the painting. Through the process, the painting moves constantly from one state to another, until the final image is clarified. To begin with, Mankin will allow intuitive changes to occur, allowing runnels of paint to provoke
relationships and questions. The dynamic application of materials, the embrace of accident, the transformation of overpainting, the unearthing of the unexpected, move the painting towards the true image Mankin is searching for. The finished painting becomes its own space through which the viewer can journey. The passages of paint, contrasts of colour, textural differences, and mark making all become visual anchors to assist a pathway around the canvas. These compositional punctuations work together with an inescapable emotional response in the viewer, which creates their own passage with the painting. Like the canvas itself, which has moved from one state to another, the viewer is altered by the work. The sense of place, of movement, of colour, of time, kindle the viewer’s own train of thought: a remembered place, a nostalgic moment, an imagined future. David Mankin exhibits his work in galleries throughout the UK and his paintings are held in numerous private and public collections. He was commissioned by English Heritage to create a painting in response to Tintagel Castle for their 2019/20 Membership handbook. An awardwinning film documented the process. A book about his paintings and process ‘David Mankin - Remembering in Paint’ was published in 2021. His unique perspective on the Cornish landscape has enabled him to gain a growing international following and be regarded as one of the most exciting abstract expressionist artists to emerge in recent years. Kate Reeve-Edwards is an author and art writer. Coming from a family of fine artists, she has acquired a distinctive insight, enabling her to analyse, truly inhabit, and interpret the artist’s process. She has written two art books: ‘David Mankin, Remembering in Paint’ (Sansom: 2021) and ‘Painting Abstract Landscapes’ (The Crowood Press: 2021).
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The Shore Looked Wild Without a Trace of Man
Tumbling Towards the Sea-Cliffs
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 122 × 122 cm £6,250
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 30 × 42 cm £1,975
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DAVID MANKIN PA S S A G E S
at 2 Park Walk, London SW 10 0 AD
Tuesday 21st June 2022 6 – 8pm Exhibition dates: 22 nd June - 8 th July 2022 Paintings are for sale on receipt of this catalogue The entire exhibition can be viewed online at www.cricketfineart.co.uk
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The Waves Beat on the Shore Far Away
Longed for Summer
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 80 × 80 cm £3,950
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 102 × 102 cm £5,000
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Sea Longing Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 155 × 185 cm £12,000
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Gently the Waves Would Break
Call of the Running Tide
Cadgwith Morning Tide (Study)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
Ship of Sunrise Burning
Sun-Shadowed Valleys Roll along the Sea
Seaweed Smells from Sandy Caves
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
Voice on the Swell
Distant Thunder of an Angry Sea
The Waves Sounded
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 21 × 21 cm £875
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Chasing the Morning Sun Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 102 × 102 cm £5,000
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Rumour of Sun, Impulse of Summer
Stepper Point
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 36 × 25 cm £1,400
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 24 × 36 cm £1,400
Door to the Sea Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 102 × 102 cm £5,000
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In the Sea Rocks, in the Stone Pockets
The Salt Tides Seawards Flow
Trampling Surf
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 31.5 × 44.5 cm £1,975
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 31 × 36 cm £1,575
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 150 × 150 cm £9,250
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Out into the Deep Blue Air Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 50 × 50 cm £2,850
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Misty Sea-Line that Meets the Wash of Air Acrylic and mixed media on paper 26 × 22 cm £1,100
The Breakers Battle with the Land Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 80 × 80 cm £3,950
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The Meadows where it Glides, the Sun, the Breeze Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 102 × 102 cm £5,000
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Back to the Sea and Home Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 122 × 122 cm £6,250
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Shadows in the Tide
Smouldering Summer Seas Running in Upon the Coast
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 185 × 122 cm £9,250
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 122 × 122 cm £6,250
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On Winter’s Margin
Polzeath
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 40 × 50 cm £2,450
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 102 × 102 cm £5,000
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Desolate Winds that Cry Over the Wandering Sea
The Shore Looked Wild Without a Trace of Man
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 102 × 102 cm £5,000
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 122 × 122 cm £6,250
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Bays Strewn with the Whitest Sand
Stackhouse Cove
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 24.5 × 24.5 cm £1,100
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 40 × 40 cm £2,250
Foam Beats on the Milky Shore
Echoing all Night to that Sonorous Flow
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 24.5 × 24.5 cm £1,100
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 40 × 40 cm £2,250
Far Out Faintly Calls Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 102 × 102 cm £5,000
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Across the Beach of Sky and Sun
Gently the Quay Bell Strikes
Nut-Smell of Gorse and Honey-Smell of Ling
On Returning Tides
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 22 × 29 cm £1,200
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 50 × 50 cm £2,850
Acrylic and mixed media on paper 24 × 36 cm £1,400
Assemblage 76 × 37 cm £2,850
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