INTERWOVEN STORIES pairs the vibrant abstract paintings and weavings of Katie Hathor-Jones with the narrative, figurative works of Sara Lee Hughes. While their approaches differ - both artists explore the ways we create meaning through visual language. This compelling exhibition reveals how abstraction and representation can speak to the same fundamental human experiences: memory, connection, and the stories that shape us.
Both artists capture and communicate human experience. Hathor-Jones works in colorful abstraction, creating paintings and weavings that move with color and energy. Through layered mark-making and interwoven canvas, her work invites viewers into a visual language where meaning is felt rather than read. Pattern, texture, and color become the vocabulary through which emotion and memory are expressed.
Hughes tells stories more literally, painting narrative scenes drawn from personal history and human connection. Her figurative works capture the moments that stay with us—conversations, relationships, memories that shape who we are. Each painting is a chapter in an ongoing exploration of what it means to witness, remember, and contemplate the experiences that define us.
While their methods differ, both artists understand that storytelling is fundamental to art-making. Whether through the rhythmic repetition of woven materials or the rendering of moments in time, they each give form to the intangible: memory, emotion, and connection.
INTERWOVEN STORIES invites viewers to experience both approaches side by side, discovering how abstraction and representation can speak to the same essential truths about being human.
