Reed's art is an exciting mixture of symbolic, realistic and abstract imagery. Her recent paintings focus on her Pacific Northwest Coast heritage. Movement and life are captured in splashes of paint, in water, forest, animals, dancers and myth.

Using acrylic, oil and pastel, she creates a world where new visions emerge from mysterious patterns of traditional Native American design into modern art. Color plays an important role in the symbology of modern vs. ancient stories, varying from natural monochromatic coppers and grays to vibrantly primary contemporary tones. The use of totems and spirits is part of her imagery, in some cases obvious, in others hidden.

The bulk of her current work is about the rebuilding of modern Native American Coastal tribes. Within this subtle context Reed explores painterly splashes, careening light and shadows, creating other-worldly dream paintings showing shamanistic views of human and animal life . She uses land and water as a metaphor for 'change and growth while maintaning roots'. Pacific Northwest tribes, while nearly stripped of their language and myths, largely remain vital today, both economically and artistically. In evoking the ghost dance, she seeks to bring alive a spirit of ancestors as a very living breathing people; her paintings are full of energy and motion.