Inner / Outer brings together the paintings of Wendy Ide Williams and ceramic sculptures of Liz Howe, two artists whose distinct practices explore the relationship between our internal experiences and the physical world around us.

Rooted in biology, botany, nature, and gesture, Williams creates richly layered paintings that move between conscious and unconscious perception. Through color, line, pattern, and organic imagery, her intuitive process explores the space between the recognizable and abstract, the finite and infinite, and the seen and unseen.

Howe’s ceramic sculptures examine humanity’s evolving relationship with nature and the environment. Merging elements of Surrealism, Minimalism, and the decorative arts, she combines abstracted landscapes with forms loosely drawn from furniture and object design, blurring boundaries between the natural and constructed, landscape and object, and the ecological and domestic.

A recent residency in rural Japan deepened Howe’s interest in Yorishiro, objects believed in Shinto tradition to attract divine spirits. This idea has influenced her understanding of sculpture as a contemplative space where material, nature, form, and spirit can converge.

Together, Williams and Howe approach Inner / Outer from different directions, creating a dialogue between perception and environment, intuition and material, and the visible and invisible forces that connect us to the world around us.