Judge A Book By It's Cover

Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Thriving on Chaos, by Tom Peters This piece is intended to emphasize the complexity and unpredictability of our current times while trying to capture the vibrant, restless spirit that can still thrive within disorder and upheaval and, occasionally, result in flashes of insight. Tom Peters posited that businesses must adapt to a rapidly changing and unpredictable world, moving beyond traditional structures, embracing a mindset of continuous improvement and innovation. As an emerging artist, I wholly embrace that philosophy.

Dimensions: 14 x 18 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman This fabulous novel details the devastating struggles of a lighthouse keeper and his wife, completely isolated on an Island in Australia, to start a family. After their dreams come true they face a tough ethical dilemma. This piece is intended to evoke both a sense of loneliness and of hope. The subtly changing pigments mimic the fluid motion of water, balancing restless movement with serene stillness, while the streaks of orange represent sparks of energy, disrupting the calm.

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Sammy and Crawford Meet at the Beach by Margie Humphreys; is a children’s book that is based on a true story. The event took place at Esquimalt Lagoon in Victoria last summer. The characters, Mylo and Munro are Owen’s nephews who were added to the story. The story teaches sharing vs. greed and kindness vs. revenge.

Dimensions: 30 x 25 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): The Diary of Anais Nin

Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 3
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Keepers of the Light by Donald Graham

Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Dimensions: 12 x 24 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): The Erractics Vicki Laveau Harvie Two sisters return to their isolated Alberta home to attend to their estranged parents, all of whom are in a very difficult dysfunctional situation. What appears calm on the surface is a storm in progress.

Dimensions: 17 x 11 x 1
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak. This book follows four timelines along two historic rivers, the Tigris and the Thames. King Ashurbanipal in Ninevah in the 7th century BC, Arthur in London in the 1800s, Narin in Turkey/Iraq in 2014, and Zaleekah in London in 2018. All of them are connected by a single drop of water and the ancient poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. The story spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rain and waterdrops. It asks who gets to control memory. And it tells a powerful story about the cost of forgetting. "Water remembers. It is humans who forget."

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): “Dark side of the rainbow” by Caren Powell I’m excited to present this book, Caren is my neighbour. “Set against the most dramatic political events in South African history, a small child, lost and frightened, survives a night alone in the African bush. Kazi grows up disadvantaged, the son of a black farm laborer and preacher. During the fight for democracy, Kazi’s brothers are kidnapped when their father refuses to hold subversive meetings under the guise of his church, and Kazi embarks on a terrifying search for them. This is a powerful story of two families that explores apartheid, the fight for freedom and change, the rise of Nelson Mandela, and offers a perspective on what it meant to be black or white during a revolution that demanded a tragic price. The story, filled with unforgettable characters, is a spellbinding tale of love and faith, racial hatred and conflict, commitment, endurance, and revenge

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Lilac Ink…Jean Grainger Knockashee Story 5 book series This “Knockashee series” is definitely a series I can’t stop reading. It’s set in Ireland during WW11. The final book comes out June 30/25 & I’m excited to see how the love story ends! “As the world teeters on the brink of war in 1937, two people separated by an ocean are about to discover a connection that defies logic and time. Eighteen-year-old Grace Fitzgerald, a fiery-haired dreamer, longs to escape the confines of life in her windswept Dingle fishing village. Across the Atlantic, Richard Lewis, heir to a Savannah banking fortune, suffocates under the weight of expectations that feel more like a cage than a crown. This emotional journey through time and place will leave you questioning the idea of fate and the extraordinary power of human connection. In a world being torn apart, can two young people find a way to be true to themselves and to each other?”

Dimensions: 32 x 16
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku. This artwork represents the book titled “The Happiest Man On Earth”. Eddie Jaku was a Jewish man who’s family was destroyed by gas chamber during the Holocaust in Poland but he was let live because the Germans needed his expertise and knowledge to help them. Although he was brutally beaten and starved he never gave up his positive attitude and was grateful that he had survived. After WWII he went on to live his life in Australia. This piece of art is similar in the sense that we don’t know how old the tree stump really is, and although it is no longer a live tree with leaves and sap, it represents a new form of life and life goes on. The tree lives on as a piece of furniture. Similarly, Eddie left his country Poland and became a family man in Australia and was grateful for what he had.

Dimensions: 30 x 15 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): “Interaction” is a peaceful semi-abstract acrylic painting. As in the “Bregdan Principle” I love helping people especially my family. Trying to give them love & a sense of peace that this painting portrays to me! Bregdan Chronicles by Ginny Dye These series of historical fiction books are riveting. I’m anxiously awaiting for book #22 release. “Carrie had always lived a charmed life, but restlessness gnawed at her soul. She dreamed of a different future, but dramatic changes are taking place in the South. Her heart and mind would soon be tested by fire – sweeping away dreams of freedom as chaos descends” Bregdan principle “Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person’s story to create history. Your life will help determine the course of history. You may think you don’t have much of an impact. You do. Every action you take will reflect in someone else’s life. Someone else’s decisions.”

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): The Fasting Transformation I created this charcuterie board because my favorite book is The Fasting Transformation which was written by Dr. David Jockers. The book discusses the stages of fasting and how each phase affects the human body. After going through the fasting process your body becomes healthier. The board I created from Black Walnut wood and epoxy resin was similar in the sense that it made good use of the sustainably sourced wood. With casting epoxy and blue dye in the bottom, clear casting epoxy on top, routered and sanded once the natural oil was added it was food safe and also showed depth. I am very interested in doing things naturally which I achieved through the book by Dr. Jockers and by creating the board, everything is natural, food safe and sustainably sourced.

Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Meanwhile on a Roof in Chinatown by Ingrid Rudefors. This book explores the surreal, hidden city after dark. You never really know what’s real or imagined. My painting, Key to the City, explores similar themes with the hidden city below the more pedestrian top of the painting.

Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. I’m a big fan of dystopian fiction and one of the constants is when something happens that wipes out most of the population, how quickly nature reclaims the earth. My piece, Overgrowth, contemplates this theme with an abstract object (car? House?) is overgrown with colourful plants. The collage elements add an additional level of mystery - partially obscured text and papers reinforce the human element of the scene.

Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Sammi's Worry by Angela Menzies. When Sammi gets caught being chased by her worries through a storm, she must find the courage to face what's scary. "Sammi's Worry" teaches children how to cope with their anxious feelings. 3 copies

Dimensions: 18 x 18 x 0.25
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Title: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – Reimagined in Mandala Form This mandala was created in response to a book cover art challenge. Inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale, the piece uses rich reds, deep blacks, and reflective elements to echo the story’s core themes: oppression, resistance, and identity. The central flower-like structure symbolizes constrained femininity, while radiating patterns represent the quiet strength and layered voices of women in Gilead. As an artist who lives with a rare disability, I’m drawn to mandala painting for its meditative rhythm and its ability to transform complex emotion into form. This piece is a fusion of art, literature, and lived experience.

Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): “The Crystal Shore Lake Legend” by Lenard Story is a fun modern day ‘Hardy boys’ mystery novel, where three senior high school friends discover a local legend, almost 100 years old. The legend says that a wealthy businessman from the early twentieth century was to have hidden an enormous fortune on his property beside Crystal Shore Lake. Many had searched but it was never uncovered. Determined to solve the mystery they encountered many obstacles, such as riddles, hidden passageways, tunnels and unknown dangers. They would also have to find the one and only living descendant to help solve this mystery.

Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): “Ecclesiastes” a book in the Hebrew Bible written by Solomon. “Ecc 1:9 What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again: there is nothing new under the sun.” Solomon, who’s only ask of God was to have wisdom, spends most of this book lamenting how futile life is and how hard man must toil under the sun, day after day, generation after generation and what does it get him but pain, sorrow, greed, envy and then death. I try to remind myself of this when life gets too “hard” here in the 21st century. Whatever hardship, illness or unspeakable evil deed that one human can do to another, I try not to be shocked, it’s not new and has all been done before. Even in our modern, enlightened culture, people are still deeply troubled, persecuted, selfish…! In the end none of our earthly deeds, whether good or evil will be hidden from God.

Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Havenwood by Terri Rodstrom - This book chronicles the history of the Havenwood property, the previous owners and how the Coast Collective Art Society came to occupy the Pendray House with their unique Art Gallery, Art Classes and Artists Studios. I attended an event put on by the new owners of the property in the summer of 2008 because my son's band was playing a few songs as well as other performers like indigenous dancers, as a welcome to the community, to hear their ideas for the property. One idea was to have artists use the house as an Art Centre to keep the house looked after before their plans to develop the land could be realized. The Coast Collective began with a small works show in November 2008 which would later be called the Gifts and Wishes Showcase. Terri joined the 3 artists who founded the Coast Collective as the Gift Shop Manger. I started renting my Art studio at the Pendray House in January 2009 and am still there 16 years later! Such Great Inspiration, like the Atlas Cedar Trees standing at the entrance to the sunken garden, which alas had to come down in 2016 to make way for the condos.