“’If I had two loaves of bread, I’d sell one and buy white hyacinths,’ said Hafiz, or words to that effect. This quotation comes to mind when you meet Kennebunkport artist Edward Mayo. And his two outstanding characteristics hit you plumb and center; unassuming friendliness and love of nature and all mankind. As a townsman of his has said; ‘Take Ed now. . .just the way you’d want an artist to be, but the way you so seldom find him.’ This is felt in his beautiful paintings, maybe that’s why he sells his work almost before the paint is dry. . . Here’s a man who loves his work to the extent of taking long, painstaking hours in his stride and calling it play. Moreover, here’s a man whose sound business sense runs apace with his rare artistic ability, to the extent of allowing him to make a success of the one work in the world he wants to be working at.”
-Frances Waterhouse in the “York County Coast Star”