Ann Oram was born in London in 1956. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1976 to 1982 and later, she became a part-time lecturer there. Ann was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1986. Following that, she became a visiting lecturer at the University of Northumbria in 1988.

Commissions and Collections include: Royal Bank of Scotland; Standard Life; Bank of Scotland; Britoil; Credit Lyonnaise; Dundas & Wilson; Dunedin Fund Managers; Edinburgh University; Edinburgh Fund Managers; Ethicon; Herriot-Watt University; Northern General Hospital; Robert Flemings Holdings Ltd; Royal Bank of Scotland; Royal Bank of Scotland, Singapore; Scottish Life; Scottish Provident; Scottish Widows; Shepherd and Wedderburn WS; Tysak and Partners; Art in Healthcare; Stirling Art Gallery.

Awards include: Carnegie Travelling Scholarship, Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition 1980; Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship to New York, 1981; Largo Award, Edinburgh College of Art, 1981; Andrew Grant Major Award, 1981 & 1982; May Marshall Brown Award (RSW) 1991; William Gillies Award (RSW) 1998.