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Camille Souter, 1929–2023

Make Believe all This Winter, 1964

Make Believe all this Winter reflects Souter’s fascination with the circus and clowns. ‘There is a certain poignancy to clowning’, she has observed, and the mood is simultaneously humorous and sad. Her composition has just the right measure of flatness, both in colour and texture. During this period her palette was muted with a preponderance of shades of yellow, white and cream and green.

MediumOil on board
Dimensions Unframed, 34 x 38 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Heritage Gift by the Bank of Ireland from the Bank of Ireland collection, 2008
Item NumberIMMA.2622
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Camille Souter, Make Believe all This Winter, 1964, Oil on board, Unframed, 34 x 38 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Heritage Gift by the Bank of Ireland from the Bank of Ireland collection, 2008

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

  • About the Artist

    • About the Artist

    Camille Souter, 1929–2023

    Camille Souter trained as a nurse before taking up painting in the mid 1950s. Though abstract in appearance, her paintings are based within reality and the everyday. Souter exhibited extensively since the 1960s, including major retrospectives at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, in 1980, and the Ulster Museum, Belfast, in 2000. Souter received the IMMA Glen Dimplex award for contribution to visual arts in Ireland in 2000. She was a member of the RHA and was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 2009.

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    We Don’t Want to See Blood

    We Don’t Want to See Blood Camille Souter 2009

    Shannon Series Painting

    Shannon Series Painting Camille Souter 1980

    Old Wheel Gate Entrance to Estate

    Old Wheel Gate Entrance to Estate Camille Souter 1967

    A Toucheen of Snow

    A Toucheen of Snow Camille Souter 1964

    Off to the West

    Off to the West Camille Souter 1964

    Aunt Biddy’s Flower Pots

    Aunt Biddy’s Flower Pots Camille Souter c. 1969

    Over the Bog

    Over the Bog Camille Souter 1962

    Chioggia

    Chioggia Camille Souter 1958

    Orange Cross

    Orange Cross Camille Souter 1956

    Untitled

    Untitled Camille Souter 1956

    Untitled

    Untitled Camille Souter 1956