*This series is on display in the juried art show: Pattern: repeat, repeat, repeat. Exhibition Dates: May 30- July 20, 2025 Location: Metchosin ArtPod Art Gallery 4495 Happy Valley Rd., Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada Title: Patterns of Connections (Series) Connections are at the heart of pattern. Patterns of Connections explores the evolving rhythms of pattern, repetition, and transformation through layered form, movement, and relationship. Each piece reflects a different phase in the life of a pattern capturing a moment of emerging, flowing, or shifting connection. Emerging Connections marks the beginning of new patterns. Flowing Connections reflects the harmony of established patterns and relationships. Shifting Connections reveals familiar patterns as they transform and renew. Viewers are invited to see patterns not as static constructs, but as living rhythms in an infinite cycle of emerging, flowing, and shifting connections. Individual: $95 each. Full Series: $275.

*Submitted to The Goldfinch Arts Centre Call for Artists Member Show: Judge a Book by its Cover. The challenge for this theme is to create Artwork that could be used for the cover of your favorite book, real or imagined. Exhibition Dates: June 26-July 20, 2025 Location: Goldfinch Art Space 170 Goldfinch Rd., Colwood, British Columbia, Canada Title: Where Stories Begin This piece explores the idea that we judge a book by more than just its cover. It's the spine we see most often. Its subtle details draw us in before we even glimpse the celebrated cover. The spine holds promise. It leads us to the cover that entices us to take a chance on the pages within. The spine is where stories wait. The cover is where stories begin.

*Submitted to The Goldfinch Arts Centre Call for Artists Show: Judge a Book by its Cover. The challenge for this theme is to create Artwork that could be used for the cover of your favorite book, real or imagined. Exhibition Dates: June 26-July 20, 2025 Location: Goldfinch Art Space 170 Goldfinch Rd., Colwood, British Columbia, Canada Title: Bloom Season A novel imagined by Liz Reading Cover art and concept by Liz Reading Four women. Four seasons of life. Each season represented by a bloom: purple for spring, yellow for summer, red for autumn, and blue for winter. Bloom Season follows four women as they navigate love, loss, change, and rediscovery. Like flowers, they bloom in their own time. Together, their stories form a garden of resilience, rooted in transformation and new growth. Spring: A woman in early recovery from trauma begins a new chapter, learning to believe in her own strength again. Summer: A mother who has always poured herself into others finds her identity unraveling as her children leave home. Autumn: A successful artist returns to her hometown to care for a parent with dementia, reigniting old friendships and buried resentments. Winter: A solitary woman in her seventies finds quiet renewal tending a greenhouse through winter, where small signs of life remind her she’s not done growing.

*Accepted in the juried art show Fleeting-Exalting the Ephemeral. The theme of the show is to explore the nature of the fleeting, the transitory, and the ephemeral - qualities that define experiences, moments, and states Exhibition Dates: July 25-Sep 14, 2025 Location: Metchosin ArtPod Art Gallery 4495 Happy Valley Rd., Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada Title: Fleeting Mountain This mountain scene explores the fleeting nature of perception. Though fixed and enduring, mountains rarely appear the same to us. Shifting light and atmospheric elements temporarily transform even this most permanent feature of the landscape. It reminds us that something so massive can also feel momentary. Changing seasons, weather, and even our moods influence how we experience it, shaping what we see, remember, and feel. Intentionally capturing this in a small painting heightens the contrast between the mountain’s physical scale and its fleeting presence as it passes through our perception. The viewer is invited to reflect on the transient beauty of a mountain that, even while always present, can also be fleeting and ephemeral. Mixed Media: Texturized watercolor composed on three sections of Arches paper, visually mounted on deckled-edge 100% cotton Khadi paper and floating-mounted with archival, acid-free foam board on a texturized canvas.