Judge A Book By It's Cover

Dimensions: 14 x 7 x 1
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Title: Where Stories Begin Concept: Liz Reading 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.

Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 1
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Title: Bloom Season A novel imagined 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. Cover art and concept by Liz Reading

Dimensions: 14 x 17 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Born Free - by Joy Adamson Since seeing the film and reading the book when I was young, I finally had my first opportunity to visit Samburu in 2018 where it all happened. This is one of two lionesses hunting warthogs, taking turns stalking and at one point, using our vehicle as cover. The impala in the background were attentive but not overly concerned for their own safety. When the deed was done, three cubs came running out from hiding in the tall grasses after a seemingly silent message from mum that lunch was ready.

Dimensions: 25 x 24 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Elephant Whisperer by Laurence Anthony After seeing truly wild elephants really up close and personal in 2018 in Kenya, I began reading everything I could about elephants. I began with Elephant Whisperer and went on from there to study their family behavior, sounds, language, movements, mannerisms, personalities, their kindness and respect for everything and everyone around them (though there are a few exceptions), mourning rituals and so much more. They are the most magnificent creatures and it is an honor to be in their presence, from newborns to matriarchs to massive bulls.

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Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Memories --- Some are fantastical journeys that never end once read, some are a goal or struggle to endure and some expand beyond what we think we know. Scratched or plucked or hanging in the air to be touched as a dew drop from a web as it filters through the ear to the mind to the soul.

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): I created this artwork for the cover of the book The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The story is a about an English girl named Mary who has to go live with her withdrawn Uncle. On his estate, she discovers a hidden, overgrown garden, and with the help of her cousin, brings it back to life, ultimately transforming themselves and the lives of those around them. The Secret Garden reminds us of the beauty in the world around us and the power of change.

Dimensions: 18 x 22 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): "Jonathan Seagull was born to be an instructor, and his own way of demonstrating love was to give something of the truth that he had seen to a gull who asked only a chance to see truth for himself" Jonathon Livingston Seagull By Richard Bach

Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 2
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Bag Making Bible by Lisa Lam This book was the start a learning process of bag making techniques that encouraged me to use my love of colour and texture to create unique one of kind bags. The journey continues as I continue to create bags using a variety materials in different combinations.

Dimensions: 18 x 10 x 6
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Raven Goddess author Morgan Daimler The Raven was associated with “the Morrigan” who took the shape of a Raven over battlefields. She is the goddess of war, death, and destiny. She is often depicted as a shapeshifter and is known for her complex and sometimes contradictory nature.

Dimensions: 1 x 4 x 1
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): “the Honeybee” by Kirsten Hall A lyrical journey through a full year in the life of a honeybee—from the first spring flights among the flowers to harvesting honey in the hive .

Dimensions: 30 x 24
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): This Is Happiness by Niall Williams

Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 2
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): The Secret Book of Flora Lea

Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 2
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter

Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 2
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Anne of Green Gables by L.M.Montgomery This is the first book I ever owned. My oldest sister gave it to me for my 10th birthday. It was the nicest gift I’d ever gotten and I treasure it.

Dimensions: 16 x 20
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Grandpa and His Boys Our grandsons are graduating from high school and leaving home to live on their own. I thought a photo book of the three grandsons would be a welcome keepsake.

Dimensions: 36 x 36 x 1.5
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet This is the author's own story, a Vancouver Islander who set out over more than a decade of summers to explore our coastal waters in a 25 ft. day cruiser. Following her husband's disappearance from the boat in 1926 she decided not to sell it but to load her 5 children and a dog into the cruiser and spend summers exploring, giving her children a multitude of adventures and challenges. In my imagination they would be surrounded by the beauty of these waters. Native arbutus trees would welcome them and each peninsula would offer another adventure around the curve.

Dimensions: 15 x 30
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver 1935-2019 This is a collection of her work over 50 years! I have chosen to illustrate her poem, 'On the Beach' as a cover for this book. I think the feelings expressed in this painting could be linked to many of her contemplative poems. {'On the beach, at dawn: four small stones clearly hugging each other. How many kinds of love might there be in the world, and how many formations might they make and who am I ever to imagine I could know such a marvellous business? When the sun broke it poured willingly its light over the stones that did not move, not at all, just as, to its always generous term, it shed its light on me, my own body that loves equally to hug another body.'} Mary Oliver

Dimensions: 36 x 24
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Cape Scott and the North Coast Trail by Maria I. Bremner [published by Harbour Publishing, B.C.] This book gives you a trail guide, a history and an appreciation for a beautiful and rugged area of Vancouver Island's north coast. It is written by a local adventurer and published in B.C. Having the cover illustrated by a local artist would seem like the icing on the cake!

Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 2
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Gravel Pit Campers by Chris Decker. The novel I chose is set in a gravel pit. This resonates with me as I now reside in what was formerly a gravel pit. What was once grey and industrial is now a bright and bustling community by the ocean.

Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 2
Book Title and Author - Description to appear on wall card (up to 1600 characters): Come A Little Closer by Karen Perry This is a thriller about an insomniac who has late night chats with a fellow insomniac who lives in the upstairs flat. All is not as it seems if course. This is a perfect summer time read while sitting in a bright and safe leafy garden.