Catherine Breer grew up in Seoul, Korea where her parents worked as Methodist missionaries.

She attended Seoul Foreign School for 11 years and returned to the United States in 1982, earning her B.A. in Art History from Emory University in 1986. While at Emory, she studied painting at the Atlanta College of Art. Upon graduation, she moved to Boston and studied painting and illustration at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. In early 2004, she co-founded annie|catherine with Annie Darling which markets their cards and calendars throughout the US and Canada.

She began showing her work in 2001, at a solo show at the Freeport Public Library in Freeport, Maine. Since then she has exhibited widely throughout New England, including being a part of "Art In Bloom" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in May 2005.

She lives in Freeport with her husband, Doug, an architect, and their children, Griffin and Mina.

Her cards and calendars can be purchased at over 400 stores nationwide, and through the anniecatherine website: www.anniecatherine.com