Timothy David Mayhew is an award winning painterly-realist artist from the four corners area of New Mexico, conveniently located near the borders of Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.

Mayhew and his artwork have been featured in many journals including Southwest Art, Western Art and Architecture, and the Gray’s Sporting Journal.

He regularly receives many awards and honors for his artwork, including the prestigious Robert Kuhn Award from the National Museum of Wildlife Art in 2010, and the Artistic Excellence Award granted by Southwest Art in 2011. His artistic contributions to the State of New Mexico were recognized in 2011 by a resolution of the Legislative Council of the State of New Mexico in the capital in Santa Fe.

Mayhew's artwork has been acquired by several prestigious museums including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the University of New Mexico’s Museum of Fine Art.

Mayhew’s notable exhibitions include the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Birds in Art exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Thomas Gilcrease Museum, Trailside Galleries’ Masters in Miniature Invitational Show, the Saks Galleries’ American Art Invitational, the Leumeister Fine Art Exhibition, the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, the Evansville Museum of Art, the Nicolaysen Museum of Art, the Bradford Binton Museum, the Settlers West Miniature Exhibition, and the Art of the Animal Kingdom.

Mayhew has been listed in Who’s Who in American Art since 2006, and he was inducted as a signature member of the National Academy of Professional Plein Air Painters in 2007. His undergraduate studies were done at the University of Michigan and he received a doctorate in 1978 from Wayne State University.

To expand on his formal education, Mayhew sought out and studied with some of the finest contemporary masters of art. He studied with the renowned animal painter, Bob Kuhn, to learn how to depict animals in their natural environment, and he studied landscape painting en plein air from Clyde Aspevig and Matt Smith.