 Further, Dault described Butler as a "veteran artist" and "a brilliant (and inexplicably undervalued) painter".Butler explored themes of violence and fear in her collection "The National and the Journal" along with other artists including Eleanor Bond, Wanda Koop, Eva Stubbs and Diana Thorneycroft.Butler along with Ruby Arngna'naaq, William Noah, Patrick Mahon, and Jack Butler formed the Art and Cold Cash Collective, a five-person artists' collective.