Artist and teacher, born in London, who studied at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where her teachers included Francis Bacon. Moved to Ireland in 1975, teaching at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 1975–90. She was a director of the Black Church Print Studio and a board member of the Graphic Studio Trust. Landscape was a favourite theme, Spain a particular subject. She showed widely internationally in group exhibitions. In 1997–8 she was included in Landscapes North and South, which toured from The Glebe House and Gallery, Donegal. Stanley’s oil on canvas self-portrait J S in A L Mirror is held by the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick, and alludes to a mirror made by the artist Andrew Logan which includes an image of Bacon.