Kathy Stanley, M.A. is a Jamaican-born artist living on the US West Coast. An intuitive artist and ecopsychology educator, her visionary art acrylic paintings and mixed media artworks center around images that celebrate earth, the rising feminine spirit and invoke wholeness, joy and aliveness.

Kathy is currently a Senior Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Undergraduate Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has taught classes in ecopsychology and spiritual ecology at the undergraduate level for two universities and several non-profit organizations since 2014. Kathy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies under the mentorship of Dr. Debashish Banerji. Kathy holds a Master’s degree in Women’s Spirituality with Specializations in Spiritual Guidance and Creative Expression.She holds professional certification in Luminous Healing and Shamanic Energy Medicine from the Light Body School of Dr. Alberto Villoldo’s Four Winds Society.

A 2021 recipient of the Collector’s Vision International Art Award from Contemporary Art Curator’s Magazine, her art has been seen at the Paris International Art Show in January 2023, the Monaco Art Show in 2022, the Luxembourg Art Fair in 2022 and 2021, as well as in solo and group exhibits in New York, Madrid, Spain, Portland and Seattle, in online international virtual exhibitions hosted by galleries in Milan, Italy and London, England, as well as in House and Garden Magazine, The World of Interiors Magazine,Conde Nast Traveller Magazine and Vanity Fair UK edition.

Kathy has also created and taught ecopsychology workshops for the Greater Portland Sustainability Network.  Her various eco-literacy classes are designed to inspire confident and engaged participation in the global effort towards an ecologically sustainable society. She speaks at a variety of functions on the subjects of work and life balance, women's empowerment and ecopsychology.  

Originally from Jamaica, Kathy now lives in Cascadia Bioregion in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and her two cats.  She loves traveling to sacred sites and treats each visit she has made to special places such as Kauai, Sedona, Greece, South Africa, Egypt and the Serengeti in Tanzania as pilgrimages that have opened her heart and connected her to the wisdom of the earth.