Terry Ananny was born in 1956 in Toronto, Ontario. As a child, she spent summers on Lake Muskoka sketching the natural surroundings. She later travelled to Quebec as a student where the picturesque Charlevoix area left her with lasting impressions of Canada's diverse landscape and culture. Her narrative paintings often depict domestic scenes of children at play in cheerful villages.
Her work is held in many private, corporate and government collections and has been reproduced on several UNICEF Christmas cards. She has exhibited her work in Ontario as well as in Quebec, Vermont and Western Ganadian galleries.