Anne Thornhill trained in Fine Art at Lincoln College of Art and Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, graduating in 1974. Since then she has worked professionally, selling her work from the two galleries she ran with her husband Paul, firstly in Whitby, and then later opening Grosmont Gallery. Moving in 1996 to a quieter lifestyle in the country has enabled her to paint full time. She works from drawings executed on site to retain a sense of place in her painting, which are usually in acrylics.