Ann Fletcher-Williams

Ann Fletcher-Williams is an artist living in Cardigan, West Wales. She was born in the Midlands and then trained as a painter at Sunderland University and has a fine art degree. She spent over 30 years in the North East of England working in galleries, museums and for Arts Council England.

Ann has had a long relationship with West Wales, and finally moved to Cardigan in 2022. Her work is about belonging and her relationship with the majestic hills, rugged coast and endlessly fascinating shoreline of Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. She is interested in connection with the land, memory, personal history and identity.

She makes vibrant abstract intuitive paintings and her practice is linked to how she experiences the landscape. She is fascinated by shapes, unexpected colours, contrasts, layers, hidden elements and texture. She uses mixed media, mainly acrylic paint and collage with oil pastels, pens and pencil. Many of the collage elements have a personal significance.

Through her working process she creates her own analogue of the landscape and her paintings are often made in tandem with writings made outside in the landscape. The works reflect the elements, her past, her present and her future. They are about immersion, connection and belonging. But ultimately they are about coming home.

Ann is a member of the Oriel Ty Llwyd collective in St Dogmaels and has exhibited her work at various venues including The Seagull Cardigan, Canfas Cardigan, The Guildhall Cardigan, Gallery Gwyn Aberaeron and Ivy House Gallery Llandeilo. Ann also be exhibited at the first Mid Wales Open exhibition ‘Here Be Dragons’ in Llandrindod Wells July 2025.