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• Like Richard Mayhew's landscape art?

I have noted from KTSF+ Jan. 18 7 to 7:30pm program about 3 Northern California artists, on Richard Mayhew:

" An acclaimed painter of expressionistic landscapes, Richard Mayhew is particularly admired for his exploration of the use of color. Inspired by the natural environment, Mayhew uses color, space, and form to express what he has called "a universal space with the illusion of time." Mayhew told American Visions writer Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins that "My art is based on a feeling ... of music and mood and sensitivity and the audio responses of sound and space. I want the essence of the inner soul to be on the canvas." "

" Painted the Spirit in Landscape

Mayhew saw his work as a means of expressing the spiritual dimensions of nature. He works from memory, not from sketches of photographs, and created images that do not depend on a precise geographic location. "My paintings," he pointed out on his website, "are based on improvisational internalized creative experience: I paint the essence of nature, always seeking the unique spiritual mood of the landscape." Mayhew avoided hard shapes and distinct lines; his paintings are characterized by blurred contours with minimal detail. As a writer in St. James Guide to Black Artists noted, "Exquisitely balanced forms, often general and summary, are suggested rather than delineated."

The emotive effects of these diffused forms are conveyed largely through color. As LeFalle-Collins observed, "Such works are emotional abstractions of physical existence, characterized by subtle tonalities that bring harmony to the elements of the landscape so that they seem to merge into one another." According to Dr. Samella Lewis, quoted on the artist's website, Mayhew "sums up, rather than represents, nature, changing it as necessary for richness of color and linear grace."

The love of music, too, is evident in Mayhew's work. He cites jazz musicians Miles Davis and Cecil Taylor as creative influences. His paintings Vibrato, Sonata in G Major, and Mood Indigo are among many of his paintings that allude directly to music. "

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