The painter Titina Zavalieri-Koutsina was born in the late 1920s, presumably in Athens. She graduated from the Makri Girls’ School in Athens, where she studied painting under Diamantis Diamantopoulos. In 1947, through Diamantopoulos, she met the passionate art lover and collector Filippos Koutsinas (1926–2013), a descendant of a prominent Thessalian family that owned the oldest textile trade house in the region. The couple, who married in 1949 and divided their time between Athens, Volos, and Makrinitsa, met and formed close friendships with many prominent figures of arts and letters. Among them were Panayiotis Tetsis, who painted Koutsina’s portrait in 1949, Nikos Engonopoulos, Yannis Tsarouchis, Natalia Mela, Minos Argyrakis, Spyros Vassiliou, and Manos Hatzidakis, whom she hosted in Makrinitsa.
Koutsina designed the garments for the Koutsinas fashion house and curated the window displays of their commercial store in Volos. She also created the front and back cover art for Hatzidakis’s album “Thirty Nocturnes” (1983). She engaged in painting and silkscreen printing. One of her series of works, titled “Epithalamia” (1975–1976), which she inspired while vacationing in Euboea with Minos Argyrakis, depicts young couples in an erotic embrace, showing clear influences from ancient Greek art of the 6th century BC. In 1978, Tonis Spiteris, an art critic and friend of the Koutsinas couple, wrote an art commentary for these works, most likely prompted by his proposal to exhibit them at the art Gallery Espace Cardin in Paris, with which he had a prior collaboration.
She participated in group painting exhibitions in Athens, such as the “Kouros” Gallery in 1958, the “Sarla” Gallery in 1959, and the “Eikones” Gallery in 1982.
Her works are held in the Koutsinas family collection, while her silkscreen prints used to decorate the InterContinental Hotel in Athens.