April's Art and Travels

April has been involved in art her whole life. She was first motivated when her 3rd grade teacher displayed her drawings of cartoon characters in class. April has worked in pencil, oil, stained glass, fused glass and watercolor. Her current focus is on transparent media: watercolor and fused glass.

In her paintings her goal is to portray an instant in time. She hopes to invoke an emotional response in her audience and to allow them to fill in the story behind her work. Color and texture are also important to April, using
these to help draw the viewer into her work and letting the story take over.

Her glass art takes a more abstract approach in which she strives to attract her audience’s attention with both color and form while bringing in familiar shapes from the world of nature to arouse the curiosity of her viewers. April's fused glass projects are varied in technique, style and purpose. Some of her work is representational, while others explore textures, or strive to evoke an emotion through color and form.

Her most recent international art expedition was to Guatemala with Tony van Hasselt. The tour was through Explore Guatemala. April's photographs from this trip are also on display at this site.