Irish abstract and landscape painter Camille Souter was born in Britain in 1929 and passed away on March 2023. She was an Aosdána Saoi who resided and worked on Achill Island. In 1956, she performed her debut solo performance at the El Habano restaurant on Grafton Street.
The next year, a solo show of Souter’s work, which included a variety of oils, gouaches, and monotypes, was held at the Clog Gallery in Dublin. Her works were exhibited in 1958 at the New Vision Gallery in London. In 1958, Souter returned to Italy for a year thanks to a scholarship she obtained. She represented Ireland at the 1961 Paris Biennale. From 1953, Souter has regularly exhibited with the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, the Independent Artists since 1960, and the Oireachtas since 1970.
Camille Souter Cause of Death
Artist Camille Souter, an Irish painter and Aosdana member, has passed away. Camille Souter, a British native who was raised in Ireland but received her nursing education in London, began painting in the 1950s, and she began to show widely in the 1960s.