Stacey Gledhill is a New Zealand-born painter based in Oxford, UK. Working with modest, tactile materials - oils on wood, paper, canvas - her paintings inhabit landscape, light, gardens, and the quiet rhythms of daily life.  Central to her work is noticing: beauty and stillness discovered through sustained attention. Beginning from observation, Gledhill often allows her paintings to shift into invention and willingness to follow where the looking leads. She came to painting because it was the place she felt most fully herself - and has never stopped believing that this quality of presence, in the maker and the viewer both, is what painting is ultimately for.

Gledhill moved to the UK in 2010. She studied painting and drawing for four years at London Fine Art Studios, an atelier grounded in close observation and the figurative tradition. She has exhibited at The Mall Galleries, Leighton House Museum, and with The Federation of British Artists and Hampstead Art Society.  In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, and she has been featured in Artists and Illustrators and other publications .  Since 2021 she has taught oil painting through her own teaching practice, Studio Gledhill - offering painting as genuine creative experience and respite, primarily for non-artists. Her students have included Oxford University students seeking a break from academic life, as well as practising artists looking to deepen their practice - finding in teaching another expression of the same attention her work demands.