Ann Dallas

Ann Dallas (born Wylliann Weatherall, 1908 – October 1996) was a British artist. She was a member of the Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, where she moved around 1958. Her works, like those of her husband Alastair Dallas, focused on paintings in watercolour and oil of local views such as the harbour, and local people.

Weatherall was born in Blyth, Northumberland. The daughter of a colliery engineman, she attended the King Edward VII School of Art at Armstrong College (then part of Durham University), where she studied under instructors such as Herbert Maryon. After graduating around 1929, she spent more than a decade teaching art at Gosforth Secondary School, while also regularly exhibiting sculptures, watercolours, and oil paintings at the Laing Art Gallery. She took her husband's surname after her 1945 marriage, and at some point adopted Ann as her professional given name—perhaps due in part to the similarity between Wylliann and William. The two moved to Scotland after their marriage, and settled in Kirkcudbright around 1958.

Dallas exhibited frequently while in Kirkcudbright, particularly at the Harbour Cottage Gallery and Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries, as well as in Glasgow and Edinburgh. She was recognised as being among the last of the members of the Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony, which flourished from around 1880 to 1980.

Early life and education Wylliann Weatherall was born in 1908 in Blyth, Northumberland. Her father was a colliery engineman.