Anita Phillips has loved art since her days of crayons and coloring books, receiving her first art set for Christmas at age five. She has been drawing and painting ever since. Studying art in school but having no formal training, she started painting professionally about age 25.Afterstudying four years in semi-private lessons with a wildlife artist, she set out to develop her own style, painting everything from delicate florals to whimsical children’s designs. Inspired by all of nature and influenced bya lifetime in the Midwest, she loves painting the things she has always encountered in her daily life.