Dimitrios Tsouris

CONTEMPORARY IKONOGRAPHY:

The Orthodox Series:

The art of Dimitrios Tsouris is the art of contemplation. meditation and reflection. While his paintings are non-figurative but expressive, there is a demand of absorbed and prolonged attention to his work. Far from being confined to simple oblongs and squares, his obsession with these shapes, are celebrated as homage as liberators, not confiners or constrainers in an aesthetic engagement.

The infinite variables of chromatic statements, generate a tremendous spectrum of feelings and emotions as the colours synthesize and fuse as reflection in the retina of the eye. The intended shape and form of his paintings work towards the goal of proportional rightness, together with the sense of colour, allows for emotional possibilities of ancient Byzantine forms and colours. Inspiration and creative outflowing originates from a love that emanates out of the Mediterranean Greek Orthodoxy, of liturgy, plain song, incense and iconography. Among the most striking things of the liturgical worship of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the uniformity of its form which is symbolically laid within the work.

The art within his work is precisely in rendering the 'presence' on canvas as 'written' in...

Bourneville College and Ruskin Hall (Bourneville School of Art), Birmingham, England. 1962-64

Exhibitions:

North Street Gallery, Devon with Billie Mallett. 2014
iStorm Gallery, Exeter. 2010
The Studio, Exeter. 2012
Exeter Open Studios. 2010
The Gallery, Tavistock. 2008
St. Martins, Birmingham 2006/2007
LICC, London 2005

ENGLISH CATHEDRALS:
Touring Programme, ‘Contemporary Iconography’.

Truro cathedral
Exeter cathedral (3)
Gloucester cathedral
Worcester cathedral (2)
Wells cathedral (2)
Hereford cathedral
Bristol cathedral
Tewksbury Abbey (2)
Southwell Minster
Winbourne Minster

Artist in Residence:
Tewksbury Abbey
St. Nicholas, Dorset

Also exhibited abroad:
Cyprus
Italy
Holland
Greece