Nancy "Ganga" Fletcher was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but has spent most of her adult life in Melbourne, Australia. She has taken several different routes in her life, with a strong interest in crafts throughout, before recent life circumstances inspired her to pick up the brush.

Inspired by Picasso's automatic drawing work, she prefers to paint without thought or planning, relying on whatever emotion is being felt at the time to come through onto the canvas.