Mary Louise Coulouris (17 July 1939 – 20 December 2011) was an American-British artist.[1]
Mary Louise Coulouris was born in 1939 in New York City, the daughter of actorGeorge Coulouris, and sister of computer scientistGeorge F. Coulouris. She spent her first ten years in the United States, mainly inBeverly Hills.[2]
She attended theParliament Hill School,Chelsea School of Art, and theSlade School of Fine Art.[3] She studied underWilliam Coldstream andAnthony Gross at the Slade, and spent two years in Paris at theEcole des Beaux Arts andAtelier 17, as a student ofStanley William Hayter. Her first solo exhibition was in Paris in 1964.[4]
Coulouris established a home and studio in Strawberry Bank,Linlithgow,West Lothian in 1976. Commissions included murals at the Linlithgow railway station (1985)[5] and theRoyal Edinburgh Hospital (1990); a series of watercolors for theHouse of Lords (2004), and a set of watercolors inspired by poetry for theRoyal Free Hospital (2008); rug design for theScottish Poetry Library (1999) and tapestries forYale College, Wrexham (2002).[6]
Coulouris was a fellow of theRoyal Society of Painter-Printmakers.[7] As a member of the League of Socialist Artists, she participated in "United We Stand", a 1974 London exhibition about mining, which featured works by coal miners and professional artists.[8]
In addition to painting, printmaking, and design, Coulouris wrote two short plays with her son, Duncan Wallace.[9]
Mary Louise Coulouris married Scottish engineer Gordon Wallace in 1971; they had two children. The couple had a second home inHydra, Greece, where Coulouris painted seaside scenes.[6]
Mary Louise Coulouris died in 2011 inEdinburgh, Scotland, aged 72, from motor neurone disease. A biography written by her husband was published in 2015.[10]
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