Artist's Projects
Pauline Greuell is a fabric printer and designer based in the Netherlands. Her creative path started as a surprise later in life, after a career in communications. Pauline comes from a creative family and has many family members working in interior design and interior fabrics. She observed a lot of creative art and design throughout her childhood and youth and did a lot of making herself, but chose a different career path.
In mid-life when a desire to work with her hands came back with great strength, she took up screen-printing on fabric. An unforeseen closure of the printing studio led to a path of discovery in stencil printing that started 7 years ago. Finding her own way in sourcing materials and exploring new techniques for working with a brush and for building motifs and patterns, she has developed her own way of working that is different in several ways from other stencil printing techniques.
During the pandemic she discovered a great love of teaching and sharing all her techniques. She has been teaching on line and in person in her own workshops as well as for Selvedge Magazine and West Dean College in the UK. ‘It is a great joy to see the techniques that I have developed used in so many different ways, by complete beginners as well as established artists’.
An important source of inspiration is nature, especially things close at hand, discovering specific shapes of a well-known plant or seemingly insignificant weed. Abstract shapes are another source of inspiration and play. For pattern making she loves to look at the pattern rhythms of design styles both modern like the revived Mid Century style and older like the Arts & Crafts movement, the Wiener Werkstaette and much more. In her own studio she prints fabrics for mostly interior design in small quantities and sells products made with her printed fabrics.
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Article in Selvedge Magazine
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