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Camille Souter, 1929–2023

Over the Bog1962

Souter’s vistas are not the receding, pastoral kind, but rather show small holdings and side cuttings, the left-over strips of land where detritus haphazardly gathers and nature curls its way around it. Here Souter used aluminium paint to depict the metallic light of the moment. In his The Irish Imagination Brian O’Doherty included Souter as part of a ‘particular strain of Irish artists working in an atmospheric mode …characterized by an uneasy and restless fix on the unimportant’.

MediumOil and aluminium on paper laid on board
Dimensions 64 x 98 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Heritage Gift by the Bank of Ireland from the Bank of Ireland collection, 2008
Item NumberIMMA.2620
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Camille Souter, Over the Bog, 1962, Oil and aluminium on paper laid on board, 64 x 98 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 was raised in Ireland and originally trained as a nurse at Guy’s Hospital London, before taking up painting in the mid 1950s. Though her usually small scale paintings appear abstract they were firmly based within reality and the everyday. Souter exhibited extensively since the 1960s. Major retrospectives of her work were held at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, in 1980 and at the Ulster Museum, Belfast, in 2000. In 2000 Souter received the IMMA Glen Dimplex award for contribution to visual arts in Ireland. She was an honorary member of the RHA and elected Saoi of Aosdána in 2009.

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    Artworks by Camille Souter

    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

    Aunt Biddy’s Flower Pots

    Aunt Biddy’s Flower Pots Camille Souter 1968

    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

    Make Believe all This Winter

    Make Believe all This Winter Camille Souter 1964

    Chioggia

    Chioggia Camille Souter 1958

    Orange Cross

    Orange Cross Camille Souter 1956

    Untitled

    Untitled Camille Souter 1956

    Untitled

    Untitled Camille Souter 1956

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