Country Life
March 2025
The Painters Bringing Wales Back to Wales
"Davies is among a quiet new generation of Welsh landscape painters whose work refuses cliché in favour of long, hard looking."
Featured & Reviewed
Press & Accolades
A small selection of recent coverage, awards, and conversations. For press enquiries, high-resolution images and interviews, please get in touch.
Country Life
House & Garden
RWA Bristol
Western Mail
Welsh Artist Annual
Cambria
Selected features
House & Garden
November 2024
Living with Art: Welsh Landscapes for the Modern Home
"A masterful handling of light. Davies' canvases bring breath into a room."
Cambria Magazine
August 2024
Inside the Brecon Studio of Annette Davies
"Patient, archival, and quietly ambitious — painting as it used to be made, and rarely is."
Western Mail
June 2024
Welsh Landscape Prize: The Finalists
"Davies' entry, 'Valley Hush', is a study in restraint — a single hawthorn, the whole weather of Wales."
Welsh Artist Annual
January 2024
Ones to Watch: 2024
"Her studio practice is among the most rigorous in the country."
Awards & honours
- 2025
Selected, Royal Cambrian Academy Annual
- 2024
Welsh Landscape Prize, Finalist
- 2024
Selected, Royal West of England Academy Annual Open
- 2023
Brecon Arts Trust, Artist Bursary
- 2022
Highly Commended, Pintar Rapido Wales
In conversation
- Feb 2025
The Slow Studio Podcast
Ep. 42 — Annette Davies on patience, pigment and Pen y Fan
- Oct 2024
Wales Arts Review
In conversation: painters of the Beacons