Artist inspired by the land, sea, shore and sky of West Wales

 A personal reflection on Ann’s work by author and artist Pamela Petro

“Ann Fletcher-Williams’ richly layered, collaged, multi-media paintings of Northern Pembrokeshire, in West Wales - particularly the area around Carningli, the Hill of Angels - are profoundly resonant of both landscape and memory.

Shifting patches of light and dark, wandering and sometimes streaking lines - the outline of a crag, a tumble of scree, a suggestion of grasses or dapplings on water - and above all, a vivid feast of colors, draw the viewer into a world that is something more than landscape. It is our holy association with the landscapes we love - those places of childhood and revelation, of comfort and challenge - made visual to be seen and shared.

Through her marks and pastings, her rubbings and scrapings, and her use of text as well, snippets of which often appear half obscured or buried, Fletcher-Williams has given us works of topographic depth that is both literal and emotional. These are paintings that touch the soul."