April Van Brunt

April Van Brunt is an artist living in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was born in Atlanta and grew up in a family that was always plucking guitar strings, painting murals, or weaving a story, however, she didn’t pick up a paintbrush until after her mother tragically passed in 2019. Soon after, April and her family moved to Chattanooga just before the pandemic. April, like so many, lost her day job and began homeschooling her children; painting at her tiny kitchen table became a lifeline and a true example of beauty from ashes. She continues to work through her grief through painting, taking inspiration in the beauty that is in our everyday surroundings and the stories they tell.