Small Paintings is a series that embraces Coulis's faculty for producing contemplations of imagined and dreamlike moments. With her previous work featuring figures, the new series serves as a shift in subject matter, as they are all still-lifes. Influenced by her recent trip to Italy and the 1950's Italian still-lifes she was exposed to, Coulis has created five paintings that boast pattern, a spirited pallet, strong composition and blocks of color. Within the sphere of still lifes with a traditional focus on flowers and fruits this series excites original interest. Its dismissal of standard approaches to painting and blending produce a quality specific to Coulis paintings, and that paired with the bold patterning and repetition account for an energized aesthetic, almost playful. Coulis describes it, "I am contemplating some formal games of painting."