Working as Lady Vandoulous, Ana Ratcliffe is a self-taught artist from Wiarton, Ontario, whose work is rooted in lived experience and shaped by an instinct to create that predates any formal permission to do so.

Ana lives with cerebral palsy, and she approaches art on her own terms in a language that has always been hers. Her work is direct, intuitive, and unfiltered, built through perseverance and personal knowledge rather than institutional training. Her formal studies took her from a Bachelor of Arts in History to a Master of Social Work. This education and lifetime of experience gives her a particular way of seeing people: how they carry their stories, how systems shape identity, and how much goes unseen beneath the surface. You can feel that in her work, which moves between the deeply personal and the quietly political.

She is also a mother of four, and she creates within the rhythms of daily life. Her art carries that energy. It is tender and forceful at once.