David Mankin
Language of Paint
Will be published approx. on 31. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-1-915670-38-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 commuicate 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.
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-915670-38-0 (9781915670380)
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Alison Bevan (nee Lloyd) graduated in History of Art from Nottingham University in 1986 and has since spent her entire career working in museums and art galleries. In 2024 she stepped away from full-time leadership roles to concentrate on sharing her passion and knowledge with others as a freelance lecturer and consultant. From 2013-2024, Alison was Director of the RWA (Royal West of England Academy) - Bristol's original public art gallery, and Britain's only regional Royal Academy of Art, whose Academicians have included Stanhope Forbes, Dame Laura Knight, Dod Procter and Vanessa Bell, and today include Sir Frank Bowling, Sir Peter Blake and Eileen Cooper.
At the start of her career, she spent 10 years at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, as Exhibitions Officer and then Curator, before taking up the role of Director of Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance (1999-2013). Here she became an acknowledged expert on the Newlyn, Lamorna and St Ives artists colonies (1880-1940), a subject on which has lectured in the UK, USA and France. She was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2013 New Year's Honours for services to Cultural Heritage in Cornwall. She is an Arts Society Accredited lecturer, Chair of Bristol Museums Oversight Board, Fellow of the Museums Association, an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Bristol, and was Chair of the South Western Federation of Museums and Galleries from 2009-12.
At the start of her career, she spent 10 years at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, as Exhibitions Officer and then Curator, before taking up the role of Director of Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance (1999-2013). Here she became an acknowledged expert on the Newlyn, Lamorna and St Ives artists colonies (1880-1940), a subject on which has lectured in the UK, USA and France. She was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2013 New Year's Honours for services to Cultural Heritage in Cornwall. She is an Arts Society Accredited lecturer, Chair of Bristol Museums Oversight Board, Fellow of the Museums Association, an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Bristol, and was Chair of the South Western Federation of Museums and Galleries from 2009-12.