Anita was born in 1957 in Santa Monica, California, and was raised in Los Angeles and Europe. She received her formal education at university in the Los Angeles area, with a degree in Art and Design. Throughout her youth she indulged her talent in art and drawing, beginning oil painting in an adult class at the tender young age of 12. By the age of 14 she was already selling her work. During her education and training, she discovered (alongside the impressionists) the abstract modern, especially the classical masters of the 20th century, Richard Diebenkorn and Mark Rothko. They were going to be her mentors.
Almost self taught in the discipline of capturing mood and a glowing transparency in her work, she did not forget the detail in the obscure. It has been said of her work, that it exudes an extreme pleasant mood, and possibly a story. When around her work, you feel a sense of balance and serenity, enjoying it’s presence in the room. Anita has also enjoyed a European background and has traveled extensively throughout the world. In 1979, she moved to Southern Germany. While living in Europe for almost 20 years, she gained international recognition for her design work. However, she was still fascinated by the classical masters of European Art and Architecture.
Even though she is of modern design and art, she maintains there is much to be learned from the classics. Her outlet for the appreciation of classical Europe is her occasional output of impressionist style work, which has been mainly landscapes. “It helps me to ground and center myself once again, after longer periods of abstract painting. I have to find the realism of form, shape and subject in order to charge up the creativity and freedom of the abstract once again.” And so, her work is very versatile. Nevertheless, whether abstract or impressionism, you will definitely recognize her style as being quite understated, yet rich, with attention to detail. Her philosophy of “less is more” encompasses both her style in design and art. Her goal in her art is to be true to herself and her style. Her career as a designer for interior architecture has also reflected this simplistic modernism. Her goal is to create a symbiotic relationship between the two realms, hoping that her artwork will grace modern architecture and that modern architecture will grace her art.