Irish artist Camille Souter dies aged 93
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- 02 May 2023
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The Irish visual artist Camille Souter, who painted abstract works with what has been described as a “statuesque elegance” over a period spanning seven decades, has died at the age of 93.
Souter was born in England but her family moved to Ireland when she was a child. She spent her formative years in Co Dublin before returning to England after secondary school to train to become a nurse at Guy’s Hospital London.
A career in medicine was derailed by illness, and she turned instead to art in the mid-1950s after which she returned to Ireland and eventually made her home on Achill Island in Co Mayo. She lived there for most of her life.
According to the Arts Council, her work was “characterised by both an interest in ordinary, unexceptional things and a tendency to paint in series” in which “flying, medical memories, the Gulf War, meat and the circus appear as recurring themes”. Read More…
