April Raber

April was born in Hawaii and was raised in Florida. She is the oldest of 10 children. Throughout her school years she excelled in art receiving several commissions in high school for full wall murals. During her senior year she received the prestigious May-Cohen Art Scholarship, which enabled her to begin her fine art degree at Brigham Young University.

Shortly after receiving her bachelor's degree April began showing paintings at some of the largest galleries in the West, including Clark-Leaming, Tivoli and Voris. Early in her career she encountered and overcame two bouts with cancer. These encounters left a deep impression on her work reflecting not only on the frail nature of existence on Earth, but also our struggle with the perception of opposition. It was during this period that she created the controversial “dream” series. Many of these are held in private and corporate collections.

Twenty years later, cancer well in remission, April is painting on-site in and around Laguna Beach, California and from her home studio. April is elated with the possibilities presented by the canyons and coastline in Southern California. “To capture the movement of nature with the fluidity of moving paint is what keeps me constantly pushing for the experience of amazement. Painting is, for me, serendipity itself.”

You can contact April at: april@raber.us or
visit her web site at: www.aprilr.com