- Camille Souter
Camille Souter, painter, though born in
Northampton, England in 1929 was raised inIreland .She originally trained as a nurse and began painting during the 1950s while recovering from illness. Her name '"Camille" is actually a nickname given to her by first husband Gordon Souter in reference to the consumptive heroine of Alexandre Dumas' "
La Dame aux Camélias ", she was born Betty Pamela Holmes.Camille Souter captures light and color, texture and form in intimate almost abstract paintings of unexpected subjects, her subject matter has included landscapes, still lifes and slaughterhouses, . In [http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c89/dundalk.shtml Circa 89] in a review of Camille Souter's joint show with
Nano Reid ,Vona Groarke writes::"Camille Souter's paintings have a statuesque elegance to them, even when the subject is something as banal as silage bags. She is an artist who avoids prettiness while seeking beauty."The Douglas Hyde Gallery held a retrospective of her work in 1980. She is a member of
Aosdána and lives onAchill Island .External links and references
* [http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/visualarts/camillesouter.html Aosdána biographical note]
* [http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c89/dundalk.shtml Review in Circa 89]
* [http://www.whytes.ie/ImageDisplay.asp?Auction=20041130&offset=20&]
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