Lot: 36

Artist:  Annie Soudain

Title:  Ripening pears

Medium:  Batik on silk

Framed size: 55cm x 67cm

Price range of artists similar works: £350 - £850

To leave a bid on this artwork email: Lot 36 Annie Soudain

About the artist:

Born near Dover in Kent; early childhood spent in Truro, Cornwall.

Attended school in Dover before studying art for four years at

Canterbury College of Art.

Took art teacher’s diploma at Brighton College of Art and subsequently

taught art in Brighton (Westlain Grammar School). Left to have three

children, living for several years on boats in England and France and

settling by the sea in Sussex. Annie later taught at Claremont School, St.

Leonards.

Exhibits with Rye Society of Artists, the Sussex Guild, the Society of

Botanical Artists, the National Society of Painters, Sculptors, &

Printmakers (Annie’s ‘Warren Glen’ linoprint won their 2008 Matthew

White Ridley Prize for Printmaking), Four Seasons Artists (a group

showing annually in the New Forest’s magnificent Exbury Gardens),

Hastings group SOCO, and at local galleries. Work in private collections

in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, New

Zealand, and the USA.

Former one-person shows at the Casson Gallery, Eastbourne College,

the Kirsten Kjaers Museum, Frøstrup, Denmark, the Stables Theatre

Gallery, Hastings, London’s Barbican Library, and the Metropole Arts

Centre, Folkestone. Regularly features in Henry Paddon’s Eastbourne

gallery ‘Paddon Contemporary Art’, in Rye’s ‘Turtle Fine Art’, at ‘Florum’,

an annual exhibition of floral, botanical, and landscape painting held in

Sevenoaks, and at the renowned ‘Birdscapes’ gallery in Holt, Norfolk.

Has work permanently on display in the Sussex Guild shop, Southover

Grange, Lewes.

Winner of the Frisk/Talens Purchase Prize at the 1992 ‘Art in Nature’

exhibition. Regular artist-in-residence at Nature in Art (the International

Centre for Wildlife Art), Gloucester. Annie has also painted 6 large

panels for cruise liner Saga Rose as well as doing work for the National

Trust.

Commissioned to decorate a life-size fibreglass cow for CowParade

London 2002. ‘Dawn Cowrus’ (Annie covered the cow with birds) stood

in the grounds of the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood throughout

the summer and autumn of that year; voted ‘CowParade Champion’ in a

Farmer's Weekly poll, it was later auctioned at the Royal Smithfield Show

to raise money for charity. A model is available.

Greetings cards, notelets, and prints always available (website).

Commissions welcome.