Anne Greene was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She studied drawing and classical piano as a child, choosing to pursue art at Rhode Island School of Design as a painting major. Intaglio, photography, clay, and stone carving, the latter with Jane B. Armstrong, have been additional areas of study. Her career has included teaching art to children, teenagers and adults since 1971 for arts councils and other non-profits and state-sponsored programs; designing cover and text illustrations for literary volumes, most recently drawings for Passion for Place, stories and art reflecting the Carmel Watershed; directing art galleries in North Carolina, Rhode Island and California; and restoring the art work on clock faces and glass tablets since the age of 13.
Anne’s drawings, canvas paintings, reverse paintings on glass, prints and assemblages have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina and California.
Her work is infused with an element of the unseen forces and presence behind the apparent. The etchings and monotypes, focusing on somersaulting or diving male nudes, convey a dream space or poetic atmosphere which the figures inhabit in a metaphorical sense. Many of the oils on canvas were painted in rural Rhode Island, where Nature played a key role in her creative work at the time. Jewish mysticism inspires the work on occasion, as in Malkhuth, Ish/Isha, the Psalms painting and the Esha etching.
Anne’s drawings, canvas paintings, reverse paintings on glass, prints and assemblages have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina and California.
Her work is infused with an element of the unseen forces and presence behind the apparent. The etchings and monotypes, focusing on somersaulting or diving male nudes, convey a dream space or poetic atmosphere which the figures inhabit in a metaphorical sense. Many of the oils on canvas were painted in rural Rhode Island, where Nature played a key role in her creative work at the time. Jewish mysticism inspires the work on occasion, as in Malkhuth, Ish/Isha, the Psalms painting and the Esha etching.