Born Anne Catherine Whittle, she was educated at Sydney Girls High School and Armidale Teachers College, and married Roger Von Bertouch in 1939. They lived in Tasmania where they taught and she studied at Hobart Technical College before moving to Myall Lakes in 1951.
The gallery showed work by nationally prominent artists as well as artists associated with the Hunter Region of New South Wales, including still-life painter Margaret Olley (1923-2011), landscape drawer Shay Docking (1928-1998), mid-century modernist painter and textile designer Mary Beeston (b 1917), naïve artist Virginia Geyl (b Holland 1917- d1999) and the surrealist/religious painter Rona Scott, who created a mural for the film Tommy when it came to Australia. Anne Von Bertouch died in 2003.
