Background
Mary Louise Coulouris was born in 1939 in New York City, the daughter of actor George Coulouris, and sister of computer scientist George F. Coulouris.
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Mary Coulouris
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She attended the Parliament Hill School, Chelsea School of Art, and the Slade School of Fine Artist She studied under William Coldstream and Anthony Gross at the Slade, and spent two years in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Atelier 17, as a student of Stanley William Hayter.
Career
She spent her first ten years in the United States, mainly in Beverly Hills. Her first solo exhibition was in Paris in 1964. Coulouris established a home and studio in Strawberry Bank, Linlithgow, West Lothian in 1976.
Commissions included murals at the Linlithgow railway station (1985) and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital (1990).
A series of watercolors for the House of Lords (2004), and a set of watercolors inspired by poetry for the Royal Free Hospital (2008). Rug design for the Scottish Poetry Library (1999) and tapestries for Yale College, Wrexham (2002).
Coulouris was a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Mary Louise Coulouris died in 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland, aged 72, from motor neurone disease.
Politics
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.
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