April Gavin Art

“Find out who you are and do that on purpose.” – Dolly Parton “Time: hold still awhile. I have so much more work to do. There are so many things I want to express. But time keeps ticking away, and the earth never for an instance ceases to turn.” - Yayoi Kusama Last week was a cluster of big events both global and personal. My year with Zea Mays Printmaking wrapped up on Tuesday the 25th. I’m glad that I had that call before I learned Dolly Parton passed away. It was a

"Hamp's Blues" 6"x8" drypoint + relief " Art is the guarantee of sanity." - Louise Bourgeois "Art is a way of survival." - Yoko Ono Sometimes I taste from the fire hose, open the valve wide, and see what my limits are. I'm looking for the possible; the surprise; what fits in my studio; the exhausting yet exhilarating feeling at the end of a studio day. I'm also looking for what annoys and makes me cranky. So cranky that I stop and clean my studio. The d

"You must always see with a big vision, and if you keep your mind calm there will be a way, there will be a light." - Chiura Obata "After all this Time" reduction linocut 8"x10" Back in June, I entered two pieces of work into the Awagami International Mini-Print Exhibition . It was exciting to send my work to Japan to this large international biennial exhibition. " After all this Time" was given an honorable mention. I'm at turns delighted and stunned. There's a lot of

"...choose a place where you won't do very much harm and stand in it for all your worth, facing the sunshine." -E.M. Forster I've been...