artist printmaker
Ann Lewis RCA
Born in St. Asaph, Flintshire, Ann studied at the Art College in Bangor and then at Exeter College of Art and Design.
After graduating in Graphic Design at Exeter in 1988, Ann returned to Wales, initially working as a freelance designer and illustrator.
A gradual evolution from designer to fine artist began in 1993 when Ann was elected a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy. In April 2014, Ann was elected Vice-President of the Academy.
Since March 2009, Ann has worked full time as a printmaker, specialising in the reduction method of linocutting. She produces small editions of original prints in her studio in the Conwy Valley in North Wales.
Ann’s work is inspired largely by the Welsh landscape, its mountains, rivers, waterfalls, and coastline.
Ann has work in the National Library of Wales’ collection (February 2010), the Government‘s Art Collection (March 2012) and The Grosvenor Museum, Chester’s Print Collection (2017).
‘The challenge of capturing the movement of moving water or light shifting across the landscape never fails to test and seduce me and is something I return to again and again. With an ever-changing view from my studio window that stretches for miles down the Conwy Valley, inspiration is not in short supply’.