Posted on 31 August 2025
Creative Challenge September 2025
Painting in the Delft style.
Delft pottery is painted mainly with scenes from Holland. It depicts the landscape and seascapes and some religious scenes.
There is a lot of information online with many examples.
Have a go at painting something that represents your hometown in the delft style – Blue.
Artist of the Month.
David Mankin.
David Mankin lives and works in the southwest of Cornwall. His dynamic and vivid abstracted Cornish landscape paintings have been exhibited in London and Cornwall, and he has shown in a number of London art fairs. His paintings are in numerous private and corporate art collections.
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.
