Born near Dover in Kent; Annie spent her early childhood spent in Truro, Cornwall. She studied art at the Canterbury College of Art. Annie trained as a teacher at Brighton College of Art and subsequently taught art in Brighton.
Annie exhibits incredibly widely including:
the National Society of Painters, Sculptors, & Printmakers (her ‘Warren Glen’ linoprint won their 2008 Mathew White Ridley Prize for Printmaking), Four Seasons Artists (a new group showing annually in the New Forest’s magnificent Exbury Gardens),
She also has work in private collections in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA and was commissioned to decorate a life-size fiberglass cow for the 'Cowparade’ London in 2002, entitled ‘Dawn Cowrus’ for which Annie covered the cow with birds. Her commission stood in the grounds of the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood throughout the summer and autumn of that year, voted ‘CowParade Champion’ in a Farmers Weekly Poll it was later auctioned at the royal Smithfield Show to raise money for charity.
Annie Soudain enjoys painting in watercolour, gouache, and silk dyes (wax-resist); also printmaking — mostly linocuts, using various techniques. Fabric collage is another favourite medium.