Museum of Arts & Design curator, Dorothy Twining Globus, described the artist’s work as “mysterious but engaging; private records and runes whose meaning is sensed but less important than the aura of balance and calm they evoke… Limiting the elements and the range of color in these serene and tranquil compositions, she shows her mastery of balance and scale.”

Art critic, Ed McCormack writes, “Butler’s work can be compared to [Lenore] Tawney’s for her ability to elevate textile materials to aesthetic realms far beyond their craft origins, and to [Agnes] Martin’s for a compositional austerity that is often centered on a spare graphite grid. Butler, however, has developed her own subtle graphic vocabulary, in which fine lines are just as likely to be created with thread as with graphite, resulting in a kind of trompe l’oeil interplay between sewn and drawn elements.”