Richard Mayhew (1924 – 2024) was an American landscape painter, illustrator, and arts educator of Native and African American descent.
Mayhew studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Art Students League of New York, and Columbia University. 
His abstract landscapes, which he called mindscapes, convey inner states and feelings through evocative color, diffused forms, and atmospheric space.
These mindscape paintings have an ethereal quality to them, in which swaths of color blend into each other.
At times, they are electric shocks of violet, magenta, neon green, pink, and goldenrod, resembling negatives for color photographs. In other canvases, they are hazier tones of the same shade that bleed into each other.
Mayhew intersected with two midcentury art movements: Abstract Expressionism, which upended the very concept of what a painting could be, and the creation of the Spiral Group, a small but influential New York collective of African American artists that sought a new Black aesthetic.
These dialogues solidified his commitment to exploring abstraction and landscape painting in conjunction with race and identity.
In the decades since, Mayhew lived, painted, and taught throughout the country including in New York, Pennsylvania and California.
More of Richard Mayhew’s colorful paintings can be found at https://www.richardmayhew.net/.
Humoring the Goddess 
lovely use of color! I prefer the abstract and purple landscape.
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Yes! I’m a purple and blue girl myself….
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Love his work, so up my alley. I reblogged this on litebeing chronicles. ❤️
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Oh darlin’ … you rock! Thank you!
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You are very welcome. 🙂
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Thank you for sharing this work. I had no idea and love this. Kat
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Thank YOU! He makes the blending of colors look so easy .. and having been working in a different medium this week (pencils) I know it really HARD!
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Yep, pencils would be a challenge, although Prismacolor makes one for blending.. Even acrylics would be harder. Guessing oils, but I would need to use water-based which work pretty much the same as traditional. Or maybe pastels but have never tried them. Hmmm…. ideas swirling about.
Sun, 20 Oct, 2024
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You have opened MY eyes too! I just grabbed gel pens and a bag of colored pencils I’ve had around for ages. They do leave white spots behind some colors but they will have to do. This artist didnt have such problems!
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