Born in West Bengal, she had a brief spell at the Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai, before going on to Delhi University where she studied English Literature. After holding exhibitions in Mumbai and Delhi in the late 1950s, she won a French Government scholarship to the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Before returning home, she travelled extensively in Europe and West Asia, studying Romanesque and Byzantine art. Since then she has lived in India, Britain, America, Germany and Russia. She has had over thirty solo shows culminating in a retrospective exhibition in 1988 in Mumbai and has participated in several international group shows. She is a well-known muralist and has represented India at the Biennales of Algiers and Sao Paulo. She has served on the Advisory Committee and Art Purchase Committee of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, where she was co-curator for a major exhibition of French contemporary art in 1997. She lives and works in New Delhi.

She is known for the haunting imagery and brilliant enamel-like patina found in her paintings. For Anjolie, who has studied art in Paris and lived and traveled widely in Europe and West Asia. However, instead of contemporary western art, she chose the archaic Byzantine art and the Romanesque art of medieval Europe as her source of inspiration. To Anjolie medieval art of Europe seemed closer to the spirit of India than modern art.

Anjolie Menon's paintings, primarily in oil on masonite board, are known for their transparent quality and haunting imagery. She uses the medieval and renaissance styles of painting to reflect her personal fantasy based on contemporary Indian imagery. She often uses old Sepia-tinted photographs from her family album - where people are all dressed up and sit stiffly on ornamental chairs - as subjects for her paintings. What fascinates the painter in these photographs is their 'still' or 'static' quality. Anjolie's ability to capture a 'frozen' moment in time and to reflect both the outer reality and the internal reverie makes her paintings hauntingly beautiful...ExC Chamatkara, Whitelays Art Gallery, London, Oct-Nov 1996.