April Gavin Art

In celebration of the Year of the Rabbit, I finally decided to commit this drawing into finished art work. The initial drawing was done...

It was over ten years ago that I sold my first piece of art to my friend and fellow art-maker Cam. She told me a wonderful family story...

This is my favorite time of year in the Bay Area. The light shifts to a more golden hue. The fog hangs around longer and gives an extra...

I heard this twice over the summer from two different artists. The first time in June from a retired illustrator, and the second time...

Maite Rodriguez was a victim of the Uvalde massacre at Robb Elementary School on May 24th. Her dream was to grow up to be a marine...

Yesterday, I entered an art contest hosted by the Manhattan Graphics Center. This is the fifth year they are hosting a miniature print...

Roughly twenty years ago, I bought my first copy of the Women Artist datebook published by the Syracuse Cultural Worker. I was a student...

Sometimes I wonder how art ever happens in my messy, jumble of a studio where no media has gone untried. A strategy is that if I plan...

January is the busiest month of the year for a bookkeeper. My tools for managing my work load are careful planning, copious...

Begin, then begin again, stop, re-visit and then keep on beginning until the work is complete. The Far Shore began as a monotype straight...

Form C: Daily Record of Cotton Picked won first place in The Uncommon Threads exhibition at Southern California Open Regional...

Greetings, The weekend of November 6th and 7th from 11-5, I will be participating in East Bay Open Studios. You can search on the home...

Stolen Children is the second in a series regarding compliance and the things we as a society give our tacit, unspoken approval. For this...

Humans are descended from bears! That's right. Creation theory and primate evolution take a back seat in this piece. Humans remind me...

This started as a drawing a few years ago resulting from the death of Eric Garner. There were a number of black men killed that same...

Form C: Daily Record of Cotton Picked combines my two jobs in this life: My day job as a bookkeeper and my work as an artist. I might win...

Greetings everyone, It has been an eventful time. To quote Zora Neale Hurston, "There are some years that question and some years that...

Exactly one year ago today, I last rode BART home from San Francisco. Normally the afternoon commute is noisy and bustling. I hate...

Greetings, There are many things to make the world feel darker or lighter, but life has felt brighter since the inauguration. It's...

Happy New Year! I never knew that my keep on keeping on could keep going for so long, but here we are. The COVID death toll gets higher...