April Pyne

April Pyne has had a full time studio practice for nearly a decade. Her home is in Riverview, NB with her husband. Her work has been seen in “The Globe and Mail”, and “The Times and Telegraph” and will be in an upcoming Netflix show. She has been a recipient of a New Brunswick Arts Board Grant. April has studied the language of abstraction looking to past modern masters and spent a summer studying sculpture at Cooper Union in New York City. Her style embraces modernism, geometric forms, sculptural elements and mystery. April is fascinated with circles (a shape without beginning or end) and with finding the shapes in the painting as a sculptor finds the shapes in wood or clay. She has created a language of her own by painting images from her childhood; geometric shapes like buildings against an expanse of sky, fragments, like stained glass from her grandfather’s church. April paints unexpected moments of natural beauty, texture reminiscent of earth, stones and pavement.