Ann DeLaurentis is a regional artist working in watercolor and etching, and is primarily known for her color intensive “post-precisionist” urban structural paintings and up-close floral studies. She has had more than 18 solo exhibits. Her last few solo exhibits, at the Lancaster Museum of Art and at Red Raven Art Company, and invitational exhibits including Goggleworks Center for the Arts, included well-received series of watercolors and oil paintings of urban and industrial landscapes of favorite cities and urban spaces, and rural  landscapes and structures. Ann has been represented by a number of galleries in Lancaster over the last 22 years, and by Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia, and other galleries and venues in Harrisburg, Reading, and various parts of Pennsylvania, and by William Ris Galleries in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. She is a signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and Philadelphia Water Color Society, and a seventeen year member of the Echo Valley Art Group. She has been a photography teacher on the high school level, and has taught watercolor and etching workshops in her studio for many years. Her artwork was most published in Watercolor Artist Magazine in the December 2009 issue with a 10-page article on her work, and has been published in the past in American Artist magazine. She is a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, born in 1957, and a Millersville University graduate where she studied Fine Arts.

For me, the creation of art is all about pouring energy into a surface, building an image that holds a force of creative energy for the viewer to absorb. The architecture of Lancaster is a constant source of inspiration for my paintings with its warm brick tones and simple geometric spaces. I have been creating images of Lancaster, Philadelphia, and other cities, for two decades that have become a recording of my visual impressions of the beautiful and colorful series of spaces that make up my city and other favorite urban spaces. My floral paintings are about exotic organic forms, vibrant colors, and the delicate movement of flowers and leaves in their natural settings. They could never be considered “still life”.