Anne's childhood was seeped in fine arts. Her father, a government official, helped her with her art homework. She had won a prize for composition with an abstract painting that brought in a broken mirror. Incidentally, coming to the Institute of Fine Arts later, she realised that Aminul Islam was working with broken mirror images at that time. Her teachers were Mahmudul Haque, Shahid Kabir and Mahbubul Amin. Among them Mahbubul Amin was strict and taught specially well. Among the masters, she is drawn to Michaelangelo's figurative work. She was also influenced by Rembrandt's light and shade play and by Boticelli. As she is drawn to figurative work, she is moved by Zainul Abedin and SM Sultan's paintings.

Anne's work is surrealistic. She says, "When we are thinking of a subject, many other topics come tumbling in and I want to capture them all." She brought in the figure of Mona Lisa through which she wished to highlight the fact women are subjugated in our society: she appears in Bangladeshi clothes and appears to be wanting to shout out her thoughts." It is said that men and women should have equal privileges but in reality this does not occur," she says. "People talk of women's progress in public but in the privacy of their homes they are conservative about the womenfolk. Through the dictates of religion, women are pushed to the background. This tendency to confine women in four walls is pushing them behind," she adds.

Mona Lisa, for Anne is a well known personality, as her posters are sold even on the footpaths, along with that of film stars, flowers and fruits. Through that iconic image she communicates her strong dislike for religious bigotry. Through her images of the women in veil and the bigots, she expresses impatience with religious intolerance. Her Mona Lisa is beautiful and smiling most often and that is how our men want our women to be, Anne says. When the artist paints Mona Lisa as screaming, this brings in her protest about her suppressed position in society.

Anne says that if she'd been a singer, she'd express herself in song and had she been a writer she'd put her thoughts in words. Her canvas reflects her feelings about society which she wants to communicate with her viewers. When she reads about women being the victim of acid throwing and burning, she wants to protest and this is her way of taking a stand for women's lib.

Apart from being a freelance painter, Anne is also a teacher. Anne's paintings may be bold and uncomfortable to the common eye but they send a bold message through symbolism.