Ann Willsie
Ann has spent most of her life painting in oils, both in studio and in the outdoors, en plein air. She has participated in and helped organize many plein air events throughout Canada during her career. Being primarily a landscape painter, Ann’s style of painting is very loose and impressionistic, characterized by thick oil paint and visible brushstrokes. Most of her paintings depict the splendour of the natural landscape around us, both large-scale panoramic vistas as well as close-up trees, grasses and flowers. Her passion, however, is florals, larger than life, juicy with paint - the sinewy stalks and leaves, petals gently moving in the wind, in various stages of their existence . That is the poetry of nature.
Her work is shown in galleries in Ontario, Alberta and B.C., and held in collections around the world. She is a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, and has won numerous awards in various FCA shows and Plein Air Festivals. Ann spends most of her time working and teaching at her studio in Lake Country, B.C.
