Anna was born in Shetland and has spent most of her life in the Scottish Borders. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 2005 having been awarded the Ian Eadie Award. She also received the Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award from the RSA Student Exhibition and in 2017 won the inaugural annual Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Award. Her work is inspired by the human mark that is left on the land around us and her practice has developed though the award of residencies in the UK, France and Iceland.