The most difficult thing about Anne’s paintings is whether to label them Primitive-Contemporary, Folk Art, or Self-taught? She calls herself a self-taught, Primitive-Contemporary-Impressionist. Being French, of Celtic and Basque origins, she calls the United States, and France, home.

She follows in the tradition of self-taught, itinerant, folk art, worker-artists. She shouldn't be confused with the many, wonderful, illustrator-painters, who, sometimes, successfully imitate the naive school. Many of these painters are neither self-taught, have academic training, and do not have the innocence of spirit, and deeply personal imagination, that is at the heart of all forms of truly primitive-contemporary, folk art. It is this innocence of spirit of the artist that defines true Primitives, whether they are called Naive, Primitive, Folk Art or Outsider.

Anne's favorite painters are the Douannier Rousseau, and the Impressionists. Collectors of her paintings often compare her to Grandma Moses. But, Anne's variety of subjects, and colors, and her skies, distinguishes her work from any other primitive, naive, folk artist, for collectors who are familiar with her work, and that of other primitve artists.

Many gallerists and connoisseurs comment on the variation of colors and light in her paintings. Some think it is a mistake, the result of being self-taught. However, Anne explains that she travels a lot. And, the light and color isn't the same in all the places where she finds subjects for her paintings. This subtle combination of imagination and skill is very unusual for a folk artist, confirmed when galleries sell the paintings to people who walk into the galleries where she is exposed, and recognize the country, or place, she paints, as being their home.

Painters, like all artists, transform the world. Their reflection on life, expressed in their art, makes us perceive the world with renewed perceptions, new eyes. Our world transforms through our interaction with them: Because, they change how we think about what we see.

Seeing life from the heart, through simple, honest eyes, makes the world a simple, joyous place, full of moments of simple innocence that make life worth living. Even if the subject is not gay, if it is presented innocently, naively, without the complexities, pains, and difficulties of life that we all experience. Once, in Anne’s former gallery in Paris, she presented them with a painting that represented her, and her former sister-in-law, meeting in front of the cemetery at Montparnasse. They had made a date to visit the grave of Anne’s former mother-in-law. The gallery’s reaction was, “Oh, my God, no! That’s not happy.” But, someone fell in love with it, and the painting sold within a week.

I wouldn’t confuse any primitive, or folk art, with artlessness. In Anne’s case, her subjects, and design, are a conscious choice. In looking at Anne's work, we need to understand that she is a rebel, who refuses to learn to see the world the way people expect her try to see it. You can label her whatever you like, especially if you recognize her work, and her world.