"Life's Rich Palettes" - Jessalyn Haggenjos & Cate Hotchkiss

In Life’s Rich Palettes, two artists—photographer Cate Hotchkiss and painter Jessalyn Haggenjos—bring the lush abundance of the natural world into vivid focus. Though they work in different mediums, both are united by a shared fascination with landscape, botanicals, and bold, expressive color.

Hotchkiss captures the fleeting brilliance of the outdoors through her lens, offering photographs that celebrate the changing light, wildflower explosions, and rich textures of spring. Her images echo the exuberance of the season and invite viewers to see the world as if through a painter’s eye—vivid, layered, and alive.

In contrast, Haggenjos constructs her landscapes from the ground up. Her process-driven paintings begin with a uniform field of color, over which she layers splashes, cuts, and masks to evoke abstract topographies. Drawing inspiration from the Cascade Range, her work oscillates between the natural and synthetic, with candy-colored hues and sharp-edged forms that speak to both beauty and environmental complexity.