Anne was born in Washington State, USA in1934 and lived in both Washington and Oregon States.  During the process of earning a Bachelor Degree in Art Education from the University of Oregon, pottery and painting were strong interests.

 

        After working at various unrelated jobs, in 1974 Anne came to Australia “for a year or two”, just to experience more of the world.   The outback intrigued, so she worked at a sheep station in the far north of S.A., then “to reconnect with civilisation”, she moved on to Coober Pedy.  There she taught English at the Area School for ten years, and teamed up with a Croatian opal miner.

 

        In 1986 they moved to the Adelaide Hills, where Anne completed a T.A.F.E. Drawing 1 course while continuing to teach English.  But in 1989 they returned to Coober Pedy where she and her partner built and operated Coober Pedy’s first underground restaurant, The Old Miner’s Dugout Café.  After ten years, it was sold and gave way to starting another business, Anne’s Dugout B & B, which also ran for ten years.  During this time, Anne wrote a book for visitors to the area titled Digging around Coober Pedy. 

 

        In recent years, Anne moved to Adelaide to retire and is now seriously pursuing becoming a professional artist, which has been a life-long aspiration.  Anne is now an octogenarian professional artist. 

 

        Presently she works mainly with fluid colour on paper in abstract or semi-abstract form.  Vibrant colours, movement, versatility and spontaneity of working with fluids appeals to Anne; their immediacy encourages freshness and simplicity.

 

        Working intuitively, following the lead of what has happened in a natural way on the paper, Anne works to develop the painting in an organic way, consciously maintaining its integrity. For her, working less cerebrally and more intuitively results in the final work having its own freshness, originality, mystery and surprise.

 

        Experimentation is probably the key description of how she works, creating unpredictability that is both exciting and challenging to experience.  The reward is in the creation of art  works that are often enigmatic and/or ambiguous in ways that are stimulating, exciting and unique.