Threads of Resilience: A Portrait in Stitches and Scars. 2023. (Embroidery onto cotton fabric).
Artist Pauline Stanley
Veil of the Blue Sun: A Cyanotype Cloak of Forgotten Realms. 2025. (cyanotype print on linen dress). To be worn at nature based initiation ceremonies.
Artist Pauline Stanley
Earthbourne: Natures’ Imprint. 2024. (Eco-dyeing on cotton t-shirt). Artist Pauline Stanley
Pyschogeography. 2025 (Collagraph print on cotton with gold stitch).
Artist Pauline Stanley
Vulva Portal: A stitched chalice of birth, threshold, and Initiation. 2024. (Textile and stitch).
Artist Pauline Stanley
Mudborne: A Fabric Rooted in the Earth. 2025.
(Local clays used as pigments and hand printed onto cotton fabric).
Artist Pauline Stanley
Artist’s Statement
As an Arts & Health Practitioner and Socially Engaged Artist, my creative practice is rooted in two decades of facilitating community art-making. I founded and ran a therapeutic community art studio for eight years, sustainably, without external funding, offering a space where art supported connection, resilience, transformation.
My art explores the intersection of creative expression, psychological transformation, the healing potential of art. Whether teaching in schools, universities, museums, festivals, nationally and internationally, I use the arts as a means of empowerment, dialogue, collective engagement.
At the heart of my current practice is an inquiry into stitch as both mark-making and metaphor for the psyche’s journey. Through eco-dyeing, cyanotype, mud printing, collagraphs, stitch, I work with natural palettes and found materials to create textiles that speak to personal and collective experience. Some of these works take the form of garments or ceremonial costumes, embodying themes of transformation, ritual, and the sacred within everyday life.
The recently completed MA in Art, Psyche and the Creative Imagination has profoundly deepened my practice, grounding it in psychological and symbolic frameworks. It expanded my understanding of the unconscious, archetypes, and myth, allowing me to approach art as a dialogue between inner and outer worlds. I now work more intuitively and ritually, with materials like stitch, fabric, and natural dyes becoming tools for healing, storytelling, and transformation. The course validated my interest in the sacred, and strengthened my commitment to art as a space for both personal and collective integration.