“I am interested in a process of picture making that encourages unconscious imagery to emerge from the canvas. The surface quality of the paintings is important to me. I have been working with tar, wax and oil for many years, to create a rich and textured surface that is both mysterious and revealing. I prefer to work on a series of canvases, to experiment both with process and form, content and subject, until patterns begin to emerge. I begin to understand the connection between the motifs that arrive on the canvases, only after the work is completed. I try to remain intellectually removed from the work when I am in the earliest stages of its development.”


Tsouris studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, taught at Carnegie-Mellon University, LaRoche College, and the Pittsburgh Center for Fine Arts.


She has shown in museums and galleries in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Ohio, Delaware, West Virginia, Washington, DC and Los Angeles.