Born with severe asthma, Anita's early childhood was spent in bed much of the time. Physical activity was out of the question. Being confined for long periods of time, Anita started drawing extensively around the age of five. She loved to draw landscapes and in particular trees and flowers. Throughout her childhood years she filled many, many notebooks with her drawings. In elementary school her paintings were selected to represent her grade and her school in traveling art exhibitions. She outgrew her asthma by adolescence and indulged in outdoor sports to make up for her earlier confinement. Her art went by the wayside until, at the age of 50 she moved to the high desert community of Palmdale, California. " I felt myself being drawn back to my art with an overwhelming desire to paint once again. It was as if I was awoken from a long sleep," Anita recalls. She sought out the help of Glen Knowles a wonderful artist and educator. He became her mentor.

Anita focuses on painting landscapes done in pastel and oil. Her paintings are inspired from nature . She takes notes and reference photos along the trails on her many hikes and backpacks with her husband Bruce throughout California and the West. She has been known as an "evocative painter of the landscape". "Her paintings have a strong sense of appeal to the inner soul. The paintings beckon the viewer to come closer, to go in, to explore the beauty of the land and it's relationship to the atmosphere it is immersed in.

Anita moved to Coarsegold, California in 2004 to be close to the beautiful Sierra Nevada that she and her husband Bruce love so much.

She is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast. She is a member of the Alliance of California Artists, Northwest Pastel Society and Yosemite Western Artists and she is represented by Timberline Gallery, Oakhurst, CA and at her home studio and gallery Big Acre Studio, Coarsegold, California.

She currently teaches from her studio and holds several weekend workshops.