Anne Redpath was born at 89 Scott Street, Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland on 29 March 1895. Her father was a tweed pattern weaver and it was from him that she acquired an early understanding of colour and texture. From 1913 to 1917 she attended Edinburgh College of Art while simultaneously training as an art teacher at Moray House in Edinburgh. She qualified both as a teacher and gained her diploma from ECA in 1917. In 1919 she visited Brussels, Bruges, Paris, Florence, and Siena on a travelling scholarship.

In 1920 she married the architect James Beattie Michie (1891–1958) and with him moved to France where he had been appointed to a post with the Imperial War Graves Commission. In 1934 Redpath, with her now three sons, returned to Scotland, while her husband took a job in London. After this the couple became estranged.

Before moving to France, Redpath had participated in an Edinburgh Group exhibition in 1919 and that year exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. She subsequently exhibited frequently at the RSA from 1935 to 1965, In 1921 she held an exhibition of her watercolours in St. Omer, France. Redpath also exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1965; Royal Academy in London from 1946 to 1965; at the Society of Women Artists in London from 1947 to 1964; and at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol; Lefevre Gallery, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Women's International Art Club, and the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in London.

Redpath was elected a member of the Scottish Society of Women Artists (SSWA) in 1939; a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1946; an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy (ARSA) in 1947; a full member of the Academy (RSA) in 1952; a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) in 1948; a member of the Society of Women Artists (SWA) on 1955; an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in 1959; an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1960; and an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours (ARWS) in 1962, She was also a member of the Dumfries and Galloway Fine Art Society. From 1944 to 1947 Redpath was president of the Scottish Society of Women Artists.

Following a fall in her Edinburgh home, 7 London Street, Redpath died on 7 January 1965 at 19 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh. A retrospective of her work was held at the The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh in 1996. Her youngest son, David Alan Redpath Michie (1928–2015) was also an artist.

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