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.

In her paintings her goal is to portray the emotions she perceives from people, places and creatures she has had the pleasure to meet or see. 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 first studied fused glass in the early 1990s when warm glass techniques were beginning to re-emerge as an art form in the United States. She has received an award for Most Original Fused Glass. She has studied in Arizona and Maryland, continuing to add more advanced warmed glass techniques to her repertoire. She had a solo exhibit of her glass at the Maryland Federation of Art’s Circle Gallery in Annapolis in 2007. Her glass was accepted into an international open medium show at Gallery International in Baltimore. Her glass has also been exhibited at Quiet Waters Park Gallery, the Columbia Art Center, Montpelier Art Center, the Dorchester Art Center, and at The Artistry in Arizona. As part of the National Capital Art Guild, April has participated in juried exhibits at Arts Afire Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, American Craftworks Collection in Annapolis, Maryland, and at Rossdhu Gallery in Chevy Chase.

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. April currently has glass work for sale at American Craftworks Collection http://www.americancraftworkscollection.com/ in Annapolis, Maryland
and at Joie de Vive http://www.joiedevivregallery.com/ in Cambridge, Maryland.

Her most recent art expedition was to Guatemala with Tony van Hasselt. The tour was through Explore Guatemala.

Although not an art expedition, April has also drawn inspiration from a trip to New Zealand. To see photographs from the trip visit http://www.rimpo.org/gallery.