About Artist:
The bulk of April's work is mixed-media: paper, pastel, coloured pencil, graphite, ink, acrylic paint, etc. She tends her own visual planet, on which the life forms continually mutate and evolve. Back on planet earth, April is particularly influenced by nature, her greatest inspiration. A New York City native and graduate of the Parsons School of Design, her work has been sold and exhibited in NYC and other parts of North America.

Statement:
I am extremely influenced by Nature and fascinated by the very idea of the evolution of organic life-forms, and the connectivity that reaches from our earth's core to the vault of the known sidereal universe and every cell and atom that fills the expanse between the two. I'm very conscious of the realm of the invisible and the limitless breadth of one's waking dreams. I look for creatures within textures and objects within seemingly blank fields. Colour for me has the lusciousness and palpability of perfect fruits and other delicious stuff that can be devoured by the eyes and causes the mouth to salivate. There's a fixation on imagery associated with birth, growth and interior realities: breasts, flowers, seeds, eggshells, seashells-oceans-openings… There's also a significant presence of fruit-cherries in particular-fish, and impossible-usually bird-like-animal mutations. Felines are stealing into the mix and will eventually share dominance. In actual (?) life I'm partly guided by the credo "perception is reality", in which is the implicit notion of the plasticity of 'reality', which I conceive of as an ever-shifting, sometimes sand-like phenomenon. Hence, I believe that art, and particularly visual art-aside from a few indelible blocks of 'intention' that the artist may choose to assign-is truly 'in the eyes of the beholder' (which brings us full circle back 'round to 'perception'). The viewer's reading of an artwork matters at least as much and perhaps more than the artist's design (pun intended). Along with the volatility of 'reality', I also believe profoundly in 'Karma' (i.e.: what goes around… etc.). I can't say that I deliberately address this issue in my work, although my awareness of it is integral to what drives me in everything I do. I try to present it all pleasingly to the eye and the viewer takes it from there.