Karen Pasqualucci

While threads unravel, we can find renewal and celebrate resilience. Through textile art, Karen explores mental health and healing, using embroidery, sashiko, and kintsugi-inspired techniques informed by her experience as a mixed media artist. She transforms distressed textiles into narratives of repair, embracing the interplay of damage and restoration. By working with absence and presence, she reveals the strength in mending and the beauty found in imperfection.

This particular collection focusses on distressed denim and silk, transformed with embroidery, sashiko, and kintsugi-inspired techniques, to explore resilience—how we hold on, let go, and reconstruct our sense of self

Karen Pasqualucci is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sarnia, Ontario, originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Her creative journey has spanned photography, programming, public speaking, homeschooling, and an MBA — each layer informing her current textile-based practice. Working with embroidery, sashiko, and mixed media, Karen explores themes of mental health, neurodivergence, and resilience. Her tactile pieces reflect a search for light, colour, and meaning through hidden images and liminal spaces, drawing on the human impulse to find patterns and faces — to create meaning.

Her work has appeared in local galleries, private collections across Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and South Africa, and in a permanent ceiling installation in the children’s ward at her local hospital for over 15 years. She teaches monthly classes, accepts commissions, at her studio Lux Fabrica and creates with the belief that creating beauty is an act of courage. Her motto: “When you are falling — dive.”