Martha Worthley is a painter whose work combines colorful surfaces and intricate detail with figurative and botanical images.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Martha Worthley headed west after high school to join the mid-70s ferment of ceramic sculptors and painters at the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA 1977). She has also studied textile design and printing at the Rhode Island School of Design and Oregon College of Arts and Crafts.

In 1981 Worthley moved to Port Townsend, northwest of Seattle, Washington where the gray skies and abundant natural surroundings have proved an ongoing source of inspiration and distraction.

Worthley recently returned from a year in Mexico where she lived in Guadalajara and taught at the American School Foundation. While there she took the opportunity to travel in order to pursue her interest in Mexican arts and crafts. Echoes of her Mexican year appear in her latest work.