Aprille McShane (b. 1975) is an artist based in Sheffield, UK. Largely self-taught, her practice began with printmaking and public art before expanding into painting in 2025. Working across print and paint, she explores nature through personal experiences of place, time, memory and observation.

Her work is rooted in an attentive relationship with the natural world. Through daily walks, she returns to familiar places, noticing subtle shifts in light, season, movement and her own emotional response. Photography, drawing and writing become ways of documenting these encounters, providing a starting point for work made in the studio.

In painting, observation becomes a springboard for intuition and imagination. She is interested in the space between what is seen and what is felt, and in the betwixt, the pause and the movement. Considered composition, reduced colour and expressive mark-making allow the material qualities of paint to remain visible, while her printmaking background continues to inform her approach to surface, layering and process.

Recent developments in her practice include a residency at Cove Park and completing a year-long correspondence programme with Turps Art School.

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"I paint nature through a practice of spending time in the natural world, through daily walks, wonderings and attentive observation. I am interested in sharing my relationship with nature; one shaped by curiosity, attention, movement and my experience of being a woman. I have a huge appetite for learning, and my reading around women and their lives often filters into my emotional response to place." - Aprille McShane