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Annie’s vigorous and colourful reduction linoprints often feature the plants, birds, and landscapes of her local area, the easternmost corner of East Sussex. She uses a variety of techniques, one of her favourites being the reduction method, where the entire design together with all the colours is built up through taking repeated impressions from a single block.
She also enjoys wax-resist painting on silk, a medium she finds not unrelated to linoprinting. The same method of building colours from light to dark applies, and the cut of the lino-tool and the movement of the tjanting call for the same kind of commitment and ideally convey the same kind of immediacy.
Background Information about Annie Soudain
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 (Annie won the ‘GreatArt Award’ at their 2013 Annual Exhibition), Hastings group Arts Forum, and at local galleries. Has work in private collections in Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA.
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