Monument, Oil and galkyd and pigmented beeswax on panel 2010
by Michel Tsouris 6x6''
A small delicate and yet quite powerful painting of a bed. The painting glows from the inside out, as the artist makes skillful use of the the encaustic medium which serves as the ground for this piece.

Surrender, Oil and encaustic painting on panel by Michel Tsouris
This is a diptych of three 24x12'' panels.

The narrative: a man in a peaceful surrender perhaps his last surrender
his dreams rotate and repeat beneath the bed. In the upper right of the piece you notice the long horned steer the strength of youth and in the last panel you see the lamb, the gentleness that wraps around us as we pass from one life to another.

Carrying You Home Again, Encaustic and Mixed Media on Pigmented Beeswax.  This painting is 6x6'' on recessed wooden panel.

It is built up in layers of cold wax, oil paint and encaustic.

There is embedded in the wax, a drawing a of a girl holding a doll-like figure of a man in her hand. She appears to be flying, the boat indicates a passage and they are headed to a house raised up  and safe from the elements.

MockingBird, A Family Portrait, Oil and encaustic Painting by Michel Tsouris 2010  30x22

That's me on the the thin line, the small red bird looking back on everything I took for granted, and then it's gone.

Seeing You Safely Home, Encaustic Painting
by Michel Tsouris 2010  6x6 mixed media on pigmented beeswax and panel

The girl lays in bed and remembers the night she had to send her father
on his journey out, she offers him ladders and then more, she offers him
ascent into light.

The Conversation, Oil on copper, Painting by Michel Tsouris 2010  6x6

This is a solid chair, the one on the right, one that van gogh would have loved to paint, to paint is to fall in love with invention, to question everything and to find beauty in the smallest details .

This is Where I live, Encaustic and oil painting by Michel Tsouris 2010 6x6''

 This is where I live, with this big thing hanging over my head, a life, what to do with it, big question.

1 This is where I Lived, Hand Painted Photo Transfer Print  On Aluminum by Michel Tsouris  Edition of 5, 2010, 12x12 mounted on board.

My fascination with metaphor has lead me to mine the house as an object of deeper meaning. This is a favorite subject of many contemporary artists. In this print i have combined paintings from a ten year period. In this way I can reflect on the many ways in which we are in relationship to our selves.

Every Night Before I Go To Sleep I Hear The Circus, Underneath My Bed

oil and galkyd on beeswax and mineral pigment.  Painting  6x6''
Greeting Cards, available of this image upon request

i find the circus tent haunting me these past several months

i will continue to paint it, mining it for its meanings

and This Circus, Too,  Under My Bed  Encaustic Painting by Michel Tsouris

8x8'' 2010 on panel...oil wax and beeswax and pigment

Even in the dark of night, maybe especially then I notice it
humming in the background, a devious sound, a circus.