Camille Fox was born in Alexandria, Egypt. During the expulsion of Jews from Arab lands, she fled with her family to Israel where they lived for several years before moving to Australia. The family settled in Bondi and Camille attended Dover Heights High School. After school, Camille studied art at The East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School) and oil painting at The Julian Ashton Art School. She worked in advertising as an illustrator and as cartoonist at the Australian Jewish Times for several years. In 2001, after visiting her son on his kibbutz in the Galilee, she crossed the Sinai border by coach into Egypt with her husband Tony. This was a visit to her country of birth which was to become a turning point in her artistic life. Memories of her childhood came flooding back with the sounds and the smells of a country buried deep in her subconscious. In Alexandria, while visiting places from her distant past, Camille experienced the warmth and hospitality of the Egyptian people. On being told that she was born in Egypt people would tell her 'Welcome home' and refuse to accept payment for coffee or cold drink. There was a poignant reunion with Mohamed, her grandfather's bawab, who Camille had not seen in over forty years, bringing back memories of the times he would walk her in the rain to the Lycée Francais and wait outside, looking through the window to ensure that she was settled in class. This, and other experiences, ignited her passion and led to the creation of an ongoing series of oil paintings depicting life in Egypt in the days of her grandparents of the early twentieth century. Her series of oil paintings evoke the gentle way of life in the bygone days of Cosmopolitan Egypt. These paintings portray characters that are infused with distinct, somewhat quirky, personalities that shine out from a world which now exists only in memory ... sultry, atmospheric, exotic and colourful. Fragments of an era long gone. Memories of another world.