The success of her little light-switch plate business soon developed into a passion for bigger things, namely, murals. She became a community artist, completing a number of murals in the Boston area and working closely with Boston's City Year and Sidewalk Sam on other art-related events. Anne also designed and painted historical murals including "History of Mission Hill" and "Celebration of the Carmelites." She designed murals for schools awarded the SEED grant. Working with a Tony-Award winning musician, she led highly successful (Express Yourself!) after-school programs at the Tobin Community School in Mission Hill and conducted other workshops such as "Reaching Troubled Youths Through Art" with Judge Baker Children's Center. Anne designed an art curriculum distributed to social workers and foster care educators who work with children at risk.

Anne's studio painting career began when she moved out of Boston and started her family. She has held studio spaces in Waltham and Allston and is now happy to be one of the newer painters on the block at Saxonville Studios. Doing what she loved and was accustomed to, Anne originally painted large works, mural-style. Soon discovering the high cost and shlepping issues of large pieces, Anne now paints more reasonably-sized works but continues to employ a strong storyline in each painting (as in mural-making), using water-based media and collage. Her paintings consistently depict the joys and challenges of life in the suburbs. She has shown at various locations around Wayland through Arts Wayland as well as the Mercury Gallery, Crosstown Art Gallery, Kelly+Gillis, and Courtney Fine Art Gallery. Her last one-woman show at Crosstown Art Gallery was called "Homecooking." Her ongoing series is titled "Suburbiaphrodite" or "Diary of a Mad Housewife." Anne is an overseer at the DeCordova Museum and lives in Wayland with her husband and three children.

Personal Statement
I've always been interested in the process of making art - how to manipulate design, texture, color, and line to create something beautiful, intriguing, and provocative. My paintings come directly from an experience or observation in my life. Often an especially large piece is inspired by a single emotional moment. Like emotions, my paintings are complicated and multi-layered, and beyond reason - sometimes sending different signals when viewed up close.

Sixteen years ago I left the comfort of my cubicle at Good Housekeeping Magazine to pursue an art career. If only I had known…Nonetheless, my art has never left the test kitchen of life - observing, experiencing, rejoicing, and sometimes mourning the basic human need to be fed. Fed literally. Fed spiritually. Most of all, fed emotionally.

The world of the kitchen can be one of joy or repression. My work often includes stereotypical domestic and female images, and irreverent commentary on social role-playing. Finally, I have a very strong love of music and find it exciting to try and create a sense of movement or a"visual musicality" in my art…. icing on the cake.