Mary Louise Coulouris was born in New York but spent her early years in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, where her father was a Hollywood actor. Hollywood left its mark on her, being less pre-occupied with its own dramas at the time than it is today. Surrounded by creative people and a movie industry still unafraid of examining the world around it, influenced Mary Louise’s future life as an artist and defined the enduring elements of her work – people, the combinations of colour and shapes, and the sheer excitement of creating art on the blank sheet.

When her family returned to Britain, Mary Louise entered the Slade School, London, where she studied fine art under Sir William Coldstream and Antony Gross. Ernst Gombrich was one of her visiting lecturers. J.S. Lowry admired her work as did the sculptor Zadkin. Soon, her work was attracting the attention of collectors such as the writer John Steinbeck, the actors Vincent Price and Stewart Granger, and later John Smith M.P. leader of the Labour Party.

A French Government Scholarship took her to Paris where she developed her own colour etching technique under Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17 and at the L’Ecole Des Beaux Arts. Her skills in drawing and sublime use of colour provided her with the first of many one-person shows and her work entered the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale. Moving to Scotland in 1976 she continued with one-person and group shows, including those at Artistic License, the Glasgow Art Centre, Kingfisher, the Scottish Gallery and the Scottish Arts Club. She also took commissions for artwork at the Scottish Poetry Library, Sainsburys plc, the House of Lords and a tapestry for a college in Wrexham. Her public murals are to be seen in several places including the rail station at Linlithgow, and she designed the sculptural Soft Island for the Glasgow Garden Festival.
Her work has been filmed by Grampian Television and London Weekend.

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...'has become something of a serious art buyers gem'... a quote from www.londonart.co.uk website introducing her work represented there.