Denisa Mansfield is a multi-award-winning British contemporary oil painter based in Colchester, Essex, whose work is based on Modern Art and her Living History Collection, an ongoing body of paintings documenting historical re-enactment, traditional clothing, craftsmanship, and cultural heritage as it exists today. Through direct documentation and lived experience and engagement, she preserves disappearing traditions and celebrates the people keeping history alive.

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Working primarily in oils, Mansfield combines expressive impressionistic brushwork with rich texture and colour to create contemporary paintings rooted in tradition. Her practice explores identity, landscape, memory, and cultural heritage, drawing inspiration from both British and Balkan history while bridging the past with the present, which she states is very much alive!

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Winner of the Geoffrey Vivis Memorial Award at the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Mansfield has also recently exhibited with Chelsea Art Society and continues to exhibit throughout the UK and internationally, with works held in private collections worldwide. Alongside her studio practice, she serves as Exhibition Officer and Committee Member of Colchester Art Society and leads Plein Air painting initiatives and public workshops at Firstsite, Colchester. She also visits local Schools as an Art Educator and works with Teachers and children on art projects which has been inspiring and continues to be an important part of her life.

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​​​​​​​​​​​​Through her work, Mansfield seeks to ensure that history is not simply remembered, but continually witnessed through contemporary art.

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