Anne Strasberg calls herself a primitive-contemporary painter. Traditionally, she is called a naive, or folk art, painter. She is a self-taught, worker artist. Born and raised in Paris, her father worked at the PTT, France Telecom. The oldest of four children, they shared a room, and the bathroom of their post-war apartment was in the hallway of their building. Anne wanted to study at the Beaux Artes, but her parents insisted that she go to a commercial school, to become a salesperson. She married at 20, and raised two children, working for her father-in-law in a hardware and tools supply store.

She began painting in 1980 when she met her mother-in-law, Suzette Feuillebois Deze, a woman painter-designer-architect. Her love and encouragement helped Anne develop her own personal, self-taught, folk art, style. She began to work for herself, and earned her living for many years as an interior decorator, designing and painting murals in a children's hospital, and in restaurants, as well as painting/decorating people's homes, furniture, etc.

Her atelier and home are in New York. Her paintings have been exposed privately and in folk art and naive art galleries and exhibitions in France, Spain, and in the United States.

She is married to the American theater director-writer-actor-teacher John Strasberg. Traveling with her husband, who works in Europe, and North and South America, in addition to New York, Paris and Madrid, has enlarged the sources of inspiration that are the subject of Anne's paintings, which represent her real and imaginary voyage through life.