Artist Showcase – Mother and Daughters Showcase

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Artist Showcase: Mother and Daughters

This showcase brings together three artists from one family, each with their own voice, yet deeply connected through a shared creative foundation. Joan Samworth, alongside her daughters Liz and Kate, presents a body of work shaped by years of influence, exploration, and lived experience.

Across generations, their work reflects different ways of seeing and making—ranging from highly detailed, imagined landscapes to tactile, hand-crafted pieces and expressive explorations of everyday life. There’s a clear throughline: a commitment to process, curiosity, and the role art plays in understanding the world and ourselves.

Together, this collection isn’t just about individual practices. It’s about what gets passed down, what evolves, and how creativity continues to take new forms over time.

Joan Samworth

“I am not interested in art as a means of making a living, but I am interested in art as a means of living a life”. Robert Henri (1865-1929)

The ART SPIRIT by Robert Henri, my favorite book, is filled with wisdom from years of teaching. My teaching for 40 years has been a gift. I have had the privilege of working with people four years of age up to those in their 80’s. Allowing myself to play with different techniques and various materials and subject matter has been an important part of my process.

Kate Samworth

Kate Samworth depicts the fear and wonder of the natural world in her highly detailed drawings of imaginary places. She explores the spiritual questions and existential anxiety that arise from observing our rapidly changing environment. Her background in printmaking and illustration are evident in her scratchboard engravings, in which each mark is made with precision.

Kate grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC and returned to the area after living in New Orleans and Philadelphia. She illustrates for books and magazines and exhibits her work around the country.

She is represented by Le Mieux Gallery in New Orleans and teaches at multiple schools, including the Rhode Island School of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and more.

Prints and private and group lessons are available online through her website, katesamworth.com

This body of work is part of a shared story—one that spans generations, materials, and ways of making. I was exposed to painting, knitting, and sewing at an early age from my mom, grandmother, and aunts. I have returned to these crafts over the years as a way to ground and bring joy to myself and to others.

My paintings explore a sense of place and presence—moments that feel both grounded and in motion. Working primarily in acrylic, I’m drawn to texture, color, and the emotional landscape of everyday life. There is often a tension between structure and softness, control and release—echoing the transitions and unknowns that shape this season of my life.

Alongside the paintings, I’ve included hand-knit bunnies and handmade bags. These pieces are more tactile, intimate, and functional—rooted in care, repetition, and the comfort of working with my hands. They carry a different kind of storytelling: one of warmth, home, and quiet resilience.

Together, these works reflect what it means to be rooted—not in one place or role, but in relationships, creativity, and the courage to evolve.