Liz Ruest (ROO-ay, b. 1962, Ontario) merges digital layers of handmade art and ephemera to create abstracted compositions, ranging from recognizable landscapes to textured fields that only hint at the horizon. Her work examines the search for a sense of home through abstractions that consider a sense of belonging, the accumulation of life choices, and the pull between natural and manmade order. Based in Seattle for many years, Ruest’s work has been shown regularly since 2001. Highlights include being juried by María Magdalena Campos-Pons into Up/Rooted at the Brookline Arts Center in MA, chosen for Interstate at the Sarah Spurgeon Gallery in Ellensburg, WA, invited to show in Digital | Analog at the Peninsula School of Art in WI, and being juried into Tickled Pink at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago. In 2019, Liz had her second solo exhibition, Adaptive Horizons, at Lynn Hanson Gallery in Seattle, where she’s been represented since 2017. Her work is in public and private collections in the US, Canada, the UK, Norway, and France. The artist now lives and works in Vancouver, BC. Her formal education (B.Math at University of Waterloo in Computer Science, M. Sci from University of Washington in Technical Communication) has been supplemented since 2000 with regular, continuing education in printmaking, photography, collage, and composition.