Biography

Ann Pember, originally from Massachusetts, earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1968. She worked as a free-lance commercial artist for twelve years, designing art for clothing stores, greeting card publishers, and toy companies. In 1976 she relocated to the Adirondack region of New York with her husband, where they live on the shore of Lake Champlain. She has been painting in watercolor since 1960.

Pember's watercolor paintings have been included in more than one-hundred-ninety-five national juried exhibitions, including those of the American Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain National and Watercolor USA and they have won more than 45 awards. Her work has been featured in more than thirty books and publications. It is widely exhibited and is represented in many public, corporate and private collections.

Pember's book, "Painting Close-Focus Flowers in Watercolor", was released in 2000 and is almost sold out. It contains numerous step-by-step paintings created for the book. Her instructional video, "Vibrant Orchid; Painting in the Flow of Watercolor", was released by Creative Catalyst Productions in 2004 and a second video, "Painting in the Flow of Watercolor on High Plate Illustration Board", in 2006. A self published book, "Make Dynamic Paintings In Watercolor", was released in PDF format on CD in 2008. She has been teaching painting workshops since 1988 and welcomes visits to her studio by appointment.

The artist is a signature member of 19 art societies, including: American Artists Professional League, (Fellow), Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Knickerbocker Artists, USA, Missouri Watercolor Society, Mississippi Watercolor Society, Montana Watercolor Society, National Association of Women Artists, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society, Watercolor West and many other regional societies.

Easy-to-learn techniques for mingling colors and manipulating light, insights into the character of petals, designing composition and more help artists portray this dramatic viewpoint.