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Biography

1970 – BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS DEGREE

Born in Vancouver, Canada in 1948, Bending, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta, on the Canadian prairies.  The curriculum emphasised many traditional, classical art forms with emphasis on realism. When abstraction was encouraged she developed what would be a life long passion for texturing paint.

 

1978 – MOVE TO VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

Active in promoting the arts, she served on the Board of Directors for the Vancouver Island Illustrators' Society and the Community Arts Council of Victoria, chairing the Awards and Grants Committee for the latter.

 

1990 – SOLO SHOW TOKYO AND YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.

Her subtle layers of texture, appealed to the Japanese sensibility for simplicity.

 

2001 – MOVE TO GRAND CAYMAN.

She founded art classes at the prisons and developed classes for troubled teens. Influenced by her new tropical surroundings, her subtle abstracted textures began to reveal representational images.

  

2006 - ORLANDO BLOOM'S MOVIE HAVEN

Eight of Bending's paintings were chosen for the sets of Haven, a movie filmed in the Cayman Islands starring Orlando Bloom and directed by Caymanian Frank E. Flowers.

 

2007 – FRONT COVER AWARD

Bending's painting, "Sunset on an Era", won the cover award for "New Art International”, a compendium of contemporary art. Inside are six pages of her images with critiques.

 

2008 – BANNER AND FLAG AWARD

Two of Bending's paintings were chosen for images on the banners of the Hero’s Day display in the  Cayman Islands.

 

COLLECTIONS:

April Bending's work is in the collections of both the National Gallery and the National Museum of the Cayman Islands as well as in private collections in Japan, Great Britain, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Canada, the United States of America and Switzerland.

 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Milan, Italy                             Ars Italica Galleria d’Arte Milano

Ferrara, Italy                           Trevisan Arte Contemporanea

New York City, USA               Monkdogz Urban Art

Montreal, Canada                   Galerie Gora

Victoria, Canada                     Fran Willis Gallery
                                             Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Cayman Islands                      The Morgan Gallery
                                            
Pure Art Gallery