London and industrial communities 1960s-70s

Born in New York, Coulouris moved with her family to Putney and then Hampstead, London, in 1950. Studying at Chelsea College of Art and then the Slade School in the late 1950s-early 1960s, she received a postgraduate scholarship to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Universite de Paris, in 1961. using the opportunity to study with W.S. Hayter at Atelier 17. Returning to London, her developing skills and social interests led her to produce etchings and paintings of busy street scenes and community gatherings, not only in London but in Hull and Durham, where she immersed herself in the lives of fishing and mining communities and held early one-person shows. These early works emphasise colour, movement and people in the mass, with strong architectural backgrounds,, features carried into her later Scottish work.