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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
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