Pauline Caulfield: Kintbury cope
Title: Kintbury cope
Artist: Pauline Caulfield (b. 1943, British)
Location: St Mary’s Kintbury (C of E)
Date: 1992
Pauline Caulfield is a textile artist. She studied painting at Chelsea School of Art and then went on to the textile print department at the Royal College of Art. Over the intervening years she has designed and printed bespoke window and wall hangings, treading a fine line between art and design. Alongside this work she has also created a portfolio of ecclesiastical textiles, including vestments and altar frontals.
An exhibition of her ecclesiastical work was held at St Augustine’s Hammersmith in 2018.
Pauline lives and works in Primrose Hill in North London.
Further information
Medium: Silk, hand screen printed
Stored in the vestry cupboard at St Mary’s Church, Kintbury
See Caulfield’s Kintbury cope on the Ecclesiart map here.
Commissioner: Lady Caroline Conran
Other ecclesiastical work by Pauline Caulfield: Cannonballs Altar frontal, made for the side chapel at Our Lady of Hal, Camden Town (2020); Rose Chasuble (1968); Saint Paul’s Red Chasuble (1997); Green Chasuble (1968); Universal Stole (1968); Purple Chasuble (1968); Plymouth Red Chasuble, held in the Plymouth Diocese archive (1995); Limehouse Hanging, Our Lady Immaculate & St Frederick, Limehouse (2001); Green Altar Frontal Lisson Grove (1988); Black Velvet Chasuble; Red and Gold Frontal. See more information here.