Anne is a Cape Cod artist who comes from a long lineage of artists. She is the granddaughter of Australia's Percy Leason and daughter of Jean Leason Hitch (artist, restorer, past Art Curator at the Staten Island Museum, and listed in Who's Who in American Art) and Robert Hitch (a well known Cape Cod artist).

Having studied at Parson's School of Design in New York City, she graduated from Pratt-Phoenix School of Design, NYC, with a certificate in Magazine and Book Illustration. She later earned a Bachelors of Arts degree in Art and Education from Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, and a Masters of Arts in Expressive Therapy from Lesley College Graduate School, Cambridge, MA.

As a fine artist, she works in oil, pastel, and acrylic to produce (as one art dealer described), "near museum quality pieces".