Camille Souter HRHA (born Betty Pamela Holmes; 22 October 1929 – 3 March 2023) was a British-born Irish abstract and landscape artist.
Souter was born Betty Pamela Holmes in Northampton, England, on 22 October 1929,[1] but she was raised in Ireland.
Souter began painting, after attending art classes as part of occupational therapy whilst she recovered from tuberculosis on the Isle of Wight.
[5] Souter returned to London and completed her nursing studies in 1952, before abandoning the profession in favour of painting.
[6] Early patrons of her work included Basil Goulding, Gordon Lambert and the architect, Michael Scott.
[3] Her name '"Camille" was a nickname given to her by her first husband, the actor Gordon Souter, after the heroine of Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux Camélias.
[3] Souter married the sculptor Frank Morris in 1960 and moved to Enniskerry, County Wicklow before settling at Calary Bog.
[3] The Clog Gallery in Dublin staged a solo exhibition of Souter's work, a mix of oils, gouache, and monotypes, in the following year.