Abril Warner
Selected Works
panels & canvasses
Ancestros | 24 x 48” | acrylic and pen on stretched canvas | 2024
$400 signed, not wired
Auspicious Wave | 60 x 40” | acrylic and pen on stretched canvas | 2024
sold
Revisited | 40 x 60”” | acrylic and pastel on stretched canvas | 2024
$800 signed, not wired
Onda | 36 x 84” | acrylic on panel | 2019
sold
Dorada | 36 x 84” | acrylic on panel | 2019
$900 signed, not cradled, not wired
Meditation ii | 32 x 48” | acrylic on panel | 2013
sold
Oda al Cadmio | 24 x 48” | acrylic on panel | 2017
$450 signed, not cradled, not wired
Remembering | 48 x 96” | mixed media on panel |2012
not for sale
Grace | 24 x 38” | acrylic on panel | 2011
$400 signed, not cradled, not wired
Surrender | 33 x 48” | acrylic on panel | 2013
$600 signed, not cradled, not wired
Works on paper
Civita Castellana 1 | 8.5 x 8.5” | mixed media on paper | 2013
$50 signed, not matted
Goya on Goya | 8.5 x 11” | pencil on paper | 2019
not for sale
Civita Castellana 2 | 8.5 x 11” | mixed media on paper | 2013
$50 signed, not matted
Crocus | 7 x 10” | dry point on Arches paper | 2022
$25 signed, numbered, not matted
Collage
Let It Fall | 11 x 14” | mixed media collage | 2016
$45, matted, framed
Special Projects
Nasturtium on Blue |10 x 20.5” | acrylic on cradled panel | 2023
sold
Artist Statement
My work represents the human experience and our awareness of the life force through abstraction. I use abstraction as a tool for communicating emotions and spiritual concepts because emotions and spirituality are intangible. Energetic brushwork and vibrant colors show the mundane emerging into spirit.
I use acrylic paint and dry pastels because they are quick to dry and easy to layer. This quickness allows me to make instinctual corrections with satisfying immediacy as discoveries and changes arise. I use intuitive color choices and move around the painting in order to capture the vitality I feel. This physical involvement helps me remain aware of my own existence as I create imagery meant to reflect the energy of life. The artworks are tangible manifestations, just as the human body is the physical actualization of the soul’s compulsion.
The soul is the highest, most vital essence that expresses life in human beings. It is responsible for discovery, inspiration, and insight. I suspect the soul is less aware and far less dependent on the body, but the body requires the spirit for consciousness, expression, and experience. We are each, at various times in life, capable of different levels of awareness of our spirit and its consistent power and influence.