Close-up of Teale Hatheway’s Forma Coloris Lux Mentis — Study No. 4, a mixed-media architectural painting featuring a sweeping ornamental motif in white and terracotta with hand-applied gold gilding, set against layered abstract blocks of red, blue, green, and blush tones.

Forma Coloris, Lux Mentis, Study No. 4

form of color, light of the mind.

Architectural Abstract Painting by Teale Hatheway

Architectural painting in acrylic, 23K gold on paper.
8″ x 6″. 2025.

…the way architecture holds the soulful residues of human presence across time. These architectural paintings distill classical forms into vibrant fragments, where color becomes emotion, and light becomes the vessel of memory. 


Forma Coloris Lux Mentis — Study No. 4, is a mixed-media architectural painting featuring a sweeping ornamental motif in white and terracotta with hand-applied 23K gold gilding, set against layered abstract blocks of red, blue, green, and blush tones.