Camille Souter RHA (b.1929) Green and Red Caravan on the Dargle Oil on paper, 57.2 x 74.9cm (22½ x 29½'') Signed and dated Provenance: Previously in the collection of architect and art...

Camille Souter RHA (b.1929) Green and Red Caravan on the Dargle Oil on paper, 57.2 x 74.9cm (22½ x 29½'') Signed and dated Provenance: Previously in the collection of architect and art collector the late Michael Scott Exhibited: ''Camille Souter Retrospective'' , Douglas Hyde Gallery, TCD June/July 1980, Cat. No. 14 (addenda); ''Camille Souter, Nano Reid Retrospective Exhibition'', Droichead Arts Centre in association with Linenhall Arts Centre, May 5th - June 26th, 1999, cat. no. 27; ''Camille Souter: Retrospective'', Model Arts and Niland Gallery, 2001, illustrated p 39. RHA Gallery July- August 2001; ''Collectors Eye'' exhibition catalogue no. 30, The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo January - February 2004, The Hunt Museum, Limerick March - April 2004. Literature:''One Hundred Years of Irish Art'' by Eamon Mallie (ed 2000), p 280, illustrated p 281. ''Collectors Eye'' exhibition catalogue illustrated p16 '' Camille Souter, The Mirror in the Sea'' by Garrett Cormican 2006 pg. 285, illustrated. Cat No. 309. ''Irish Art of the Seventies'', The Crawford Gallery / IMMA 2007, illustrated p26 In 1930 Souter came to Ireland where she attended Glengara Park School, Dun Laoghaire where she attained honours in art. In 1948 she studied nursing at Guy's Hospital, London. During this period she became ill with tuberculosis, and whilst recuperating in the Isle of Wight she began painting again. It was the illness which led her to be called Camille. She gave up nursing for painting. In 1951 she married Gordon Souter. During the 1950s she travelled through Italy and continued to paint. She came back to Dublin but returned intermittently to Italy. She began to exhibit in Dublin in the late 1950s and since then her work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions. In 1960 she married again and settled in Calary Bog in 1962. She now lives and works in Dublin and spends much of her time on Achill Island.

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