Mr Neville Pundole, the man of much pottery, glassware and other interesting items, currently has an exhibition featuring work by Annie Soudain running in his gallery situated down Tontine Street.

(I have a feeling my colleague at S&G ‘Prince Vince’ will love this Owl lino cut)

Further information below :

Annie Soudain … “Birds – Flowers – Fruit ”

An exhibition of Paintings, Linoprints and Heritage Toys 2nd to 31st May

Born near Dover in Kent she studied for four years at the then Canterbury College of Art. Taught art in Brighton, left to have three children and lived for several years on boats in England and France before settling by the sea in Sussex.

Following an exhibition at Folkestone’s Metropole Arts Centre, Annie was one of several artists from the South-East selected to contribute work for the cabins of a refurbished Saga cruise ship, the Saga Rose. She was also commissioned to paint three large panels for a bar area, and later, when the ship underwent further refurbishment, three even larger panels were commissioned and installed, depicting ‘Birds, Flowers, and Fruit of the World’.

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. It was voted ‘CowParade Champion’ in a Farmer’s Weekly poll and was later auctioned at the Royal Smithfield Show to raise money for charity.