you know and I think in a similar way to you Louise and probably Alice you know the process of discovery and learning and experimentation creates the work, you know, that's the driving force, you know. Hi and welcome to episode 128 of art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and today I have a special guest. I'm here with Cornish artist David Mankin. Hi David.

Hi Louise, how lovely to meet you.

You too, we have actually never met before or even spoken or even spoken on social

media until I am very daringly just reached out and said, do you want to be on the podcast?

Because this seemed like the perfect topic for David to come in on because of the timing.

First of all, before we get to that, David, can you just tell people a little bit about your

story before we start for anyone who doesn't know you.

Okay, okay, well I'm an artist, I'm based in the west of Cornwall and I live and work in a small village called Perrenutano, which is very close to Penzance.

So right down on the wild hill of Cornwall.

And I've been a kind of, I suppose, a professional artist since 2014 and before that I had a career in

publishing and graphic design and I don't think I think people will be surprised when they hear that you've only been a full-time artist since then I was

surprised when I saw it in the book. Yeah well I guess it is a bit surprising and it took me by surprise when it kind of

happened really because when we first moved to Cornwall in 2002. My original plan was to sell the business that we were working in and then go

back to university and do a part-time fine arts degree.

Right.

That's that was my kind of plan but you know didn't work out that way really so and in the flip side of that

story is my wife who was originally a designer she decided to go back to university and she did a fine art degree and she graduated in 2012.

And then some of her friends suggested that you know I should do a bit more art and I've always loved art and I've always painted and drawn ever since I was a teenager.

So one of the girls, Fay Dobinson, who's an artist based in Newlin, she suggested I go and work in her

Portomier studio. She had a three month residency there at the time. This was March 2013. She said well just go and use it for

the weekend so and as it talks about in the book I went I went along to her studio and

just you know took some food and sleeping bag and load of

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