Pauline Greuell is a fabric designer, printer and teacher from the Netherlands. She is self taught and works with a layered stencil printing technique that she has developed and thoroughly explored over the years. It is a technique that she loves to express herself on fabric as it allows for many different effects and variations in texture, in depth and in movement. The slowness of this way of designing and printing forces her to be really deliberate about what she creates.
For inspiration she mostly looks at nature and also at designs from bygone style periods – for example at the Wiener Werkstaette and several Mid Century Modern designers – when patterns were exclusively designed by hand. There is a playfulness and sense of freedom of expression in the designs and the movement in many of these patterns that she finds enormously inspiring.
I attended Clos Mirabel 2025 to gain hands on experience with registration, repeats and other technical aspects of print making. I left with these skills, amazing memories and new friends. Pauline is a master print maker, patient, kind, encouraging and just all around lovely to learn from. My life is enriched from this experience. — Nerissa
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Pauline Greuell is herself very talented and a highly competent teacher. She patiently past all her knowledge on to us in this amazingly productive and creative week. We all became stars ⭐️! — Louise
In a calm way, following a clear step by step plan, full of beautiful examples, you shared your knowledge with us and in doing so gave us an insight into your world of printed fabrics and patterns, very grateful for this! — Ka
A fantastically thorough course for all abilities in an exquisite setting, Pauline’s patient teaching opened up a whole new skill set for me to explore. — Polly
Thank you Pauline for sharing your wonderful artistry with us. It was such a lovely week. You are an amazing teacher. It was fun to be in an in-person class and see you going around the room helping people and giving us all inspiration from examples you chose for each of us based on our own tastes and abilities. Your knowledge is so deep and your patience infinite. — Eliza
A memorable, wonderful and very educational experience. The course was very thorough, Pauline was extremelypatient and encouraging throughout the whole process. I have learned a new skill that I am excited to continue to explore. I give it a big thumbs up and a 10 out of 10! — Meredith
This is what my idea of pure happiness is …finding a whole new world of pleasure in this stencil printing workshop. — Megan (UK)
There is something immediate subtle and beautiful about this stencil technique. It allows for wonderful play with light and shadow and barely their silhouettes. Wonderful calm, patient teaching. — Halyna (Tasmania)
Pauline’s workshops are fantastic! She is a lovely teacher - warm and generous, and very respectful of her students. As someone who teaches printmaking to others, often, these workshops nourished me both as a teacher and an artist. — Simone (Australia)
I could do this course over and over again, so inspiring. The course is well organized, with room for spontaneity, making every student shine regardless of prior experiences and skills. — Nonni (Denmark)
Learning how to work with stencils on fabric helped me to get my own artistic practice as a2D artist back on track. I am so grateful for the inspirational teaching in which we were guided step by step, while individual creativity and the development of one’s own practice were encouraged. — Eliza (USA)
Inspirational, fun and stimulating course. Teacher is clear in her guidance, patient in her interactions, and able to pinpoint exactly what problem you are grappling with and very generous in sharing what she has developed. — Sarah (South Africa)
