Richard Mayhew

Richard Mayhew grew up in New York and studied and worked with many of the great artists there, including the Spiral Group, a collective of African American artists who aimed to use the arts to fight for civil rights and racial equity in the 1960s. Mayhew became captivated by the California landscape after a cross-country road trip. He later moved to Northern California, and the views from his home near Santa Cruz inspired his colorful landscape paintings. Although he was inspired by real landscapes, the landscapes in his paintings are imaginary.