Meet Anne

At fourteen, I sold my first painting to my art teacher. She came to me — I didn't go to her. It was a Chinese-style landscape, and she loved it enough to want it on her wall. I've thought about that moment many times since. It quietly set something in motion.

A career in fashion design came first, having my own fashion businesses and writing books. Along the way I spent several years designing jewellery in a business with my daughters. I loved to sketch. Painting kept pulling me back through all of it.

These days it's where everything settles.

I split my time between Far North Queensland, London, Arizona and Spain — and honestly, that probably explains the work better than anything else I could say. The light and the heavy air in Queensland after rain. The architecture and energy of London. The colours of Andalusia and the heat, the skies and the sunsets of Arizona . These things get into your palette whether you plan it or not.

My paintings are held in private and corporate collections across the US, UK, EU and Australia. I paint from my studios in Queensland and London.

I paint because I can't not — usually starting with a clear image in mind, especially for portraits, where the face has to say something. Pretty isn't enough; there has to be feeling in it, a sense of a life being lived.

What I hope you feel when you're on this site is exactly what I'd want you to feel walking into my studio — welcome, comfortable, and maybe a little tempted.