A self-taught artist, Ann Packard (born in 1933) grew up in Hyde Park NY and often vacationed in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This is where she first developed her interest in the Cape Cod scenery. She married at 21 to George Packard and had five children. She began painting at age 30. Anne divorced in 1976 and eventually made Provincetown her new home. She then began to sell her paintings on a side road outside of her house to tourists passing by. Anne went on to display her work in several galleries. She now receives attention from around the country and particularly in the New England area.

"She doesn't paint sunshine but likes skies with turbulent clouds. Her paintings have tremendous power, and she portrays the strength of nature in the windswept dunes, the force of the quiet seas, the light striking through the storm clouds, the intensity of night coming across the water. There is a quality in those paintings that draws the viewer in to wonder a little, to contemplate the viewpoint. Packard says that she wants the viewer to see whatever he or she wants to see in them."  -Artist Review, Cape Cod Life