An Irish abstract and landscape artist of British descent, Camille Souter was born in 1929 and passed away in March 2023.
She was an Aosdána Saoi who resided and employed on Achill Island. In 1956, she performed alone for the first time at El Habano on Grafton Street. The next year, Souter’s solo exhibition at the Dublin-based Clog Gallery featured a variety of his monotypes, gouaches, and oils. In 1958, her artwork was displayed at the New Vision Gallery in London. In 1958, Souter received a scholarship that allowed her to return to Italy for a year. She represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1961. Souter has regularly shown since 1953 with the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, since 1960 with the Independent Artists, and since 1970 with the Oireachtas.
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Her first husband, actor Gordon Souter, gave her the nickname Camille in honor of the main character in La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas. The couple wed in 1953 and eventually divorced in 1955. Before Camille left for Italy with the artist Ralph Rumney, they had a daughter together. Souter relocated to Enniskerry, County Wicklow after being married to the sculptor Frank Morris in 1960, and then she made her home at Calary Bog. Morris passed away in 1970 from sepsis after having four children with the couple.