Growing up in New York City amidst her mother’s fabric swaths and paint samples of interior design, Annie discovered her happiest moments existed in color, texture and form.

Leaving the Fine Arts program at the University of Arizona to marry and have children, she stumbled upon her professional graphics career when her boss failed to return to work. Starting at ground zero, as replacement lead artist at Grove Printing company, she later became the Art Director for the long standing iconic leader in textile design, FiberArts Magazine, in Asheville, NC.

Due to fortune and family, Annie landed across the country, on Bainbridge Island, WA. Continuing her free lance graphics work, she won the bid for the 1987 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival design. Later she served as the Art Director for Cascadian Farms in Concrete, WA, and finally heeded the call of the Sun, returning to the textural inspiration of Arizona.

Under the Adult Degree Program of Prescott College, Annie renovated the 1883 historic Hale House in Prescott, AZ. In 1997, She graduated with her BFA in Architecture as Art.

Working with at-risk youth, Annie was introduced to the intensive work of handmade paper. Discovering her affinity with the medium and falling in love with its sculptural potential, she embarked on a practice that has spanned the last 25 years. Within the known world of handmade paper making methods, Annie has developed her own unique processes, aided by the flora and fauna of the Central Highlands and its particular Arizona climate. Incorporating her selected foraging in the textural landscape, the wet summer monsoons, long hot dry days and the brief but startling freeze of winter, she produces her original expressions.

Annie’s unique interpretation of Creation, realized through focused observation, green, bio available materials, scientific experimentation and fierce human strength and determination, leads any viewer into a world of beauty. Both visually, and intellectually, one enters a shared celebration of the natural wonder that surrounds us.