Barbara Mayfield (née Hagendorf) studied art and design for two years at Tyler School of Art and is graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She was awarded the J. Henry Scheidt Traveling Scholarship upon graduation from PAFA and spent ten weeks in Europe and Mexico soaking up the art in each region.
Mayfield was part of the first 4-person team at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Community Programs Department, working with artists Clarence Wood and Don Kaiser, the two dynamos who brought mural arts to the city of Philadelphia, and Susan Mayr. Mayfield assisted on more than a dozen murals over a two-year period.
For many years she worked as a freelance muralist and theatrical set designer. Her paintings, mixed media work, and monotypes have been represented by fine galleries in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C., and on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work is in private and public collections throughout the USA and the world.
Mayfield works primarily in oil on canvas and panel, sometimes in acrylic and mixed media and assemblage. Contact the artist (scroll down)to see more work online and arrange a purchase.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, she lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 21 years. She is currently based in Philadelphia, 8 miles from the Liberty Bell. Pinterest.
Artist Statement: “The natural world is what thrills me: sky, land, the watery places, and the creatures that fly. The bone-crushing beauty of life. My twenty-one years in the Southwest infused my vision with a sense of scale I had not experienced growing up on the East Coast. In my paintings, I lay down layers and layers of color, opaque and translucent, to build up the surface with texture and stroke, to create luminous images and intense color. I want to record the scars that happen to everything and everyone as we walk through our time in the physical world. Recent work invokes the great immensity we inhabit, and our minuscule, exquisite place in it.”—BJM 2024
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