"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

Martha Worthy's impressions of the natural world employ vibrant and assertive colors, bringing new life to the stylized fish and lizards, butterflies and moths, crows and tanagers that she creates with her brush. The full on use of color brings backgrounds to the foreground, drawing attention to every corner of her paintings. One can imagine ancient goyotaku (Japanese fish prints), petroglyphs and pictographs on hidden southwest canyon walls, and collections of mounted butterflies in stuffy English museums, all reborn with brilliant colors and the artist's fresh eyes.