April C. House

About the Artist

April C. House is an abstract encaustic and acrylic artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Communication Design from the Atlanta College of Art (now SCAD Atlanta.) A shy child, everything was fodder for her imagination. She spent time wandering the outdoors, making Barbie clothes with her grandmother’s fabric scraps and tape, creating fashion illustrations, and collaging with old wallpaper books and mail order catalogs. April is inspired by everyday color, composition, and her saved mementos of daily life. She enjoys embedding pattern paper, parking meter receipts, tickets, barcodes and handwriting which, as a hobby genealogist gives her a feeling of preservation. Born in Indiana with respites in Alabama and Georgia, April settled with her husband and daughter in Dundalk, she considers herself a proud Maryland transplant.

Artist's Statement

My college education was one of a fine art base with a graphic design concentration. I dabbled with acrylics of and on for years but after embracing encaustics in 2015, the medium became the impetus for many new works. Layering pieces of everyday ephemera as if floating through time reminds me that there is more to a moment than what lies on the surface. Working intuitively, my paintings alternate between recognizable objects/landscapes and more abstract scenes focusing on color and composition.