About
Stacey Gledhill is a New Zealand-born painter based in Oxford, UK. Working primarily in oils on canvas, linen, paper, and wood, her paintings traverse landscape, light, gardens, and transient, often overlooked daily moments. Central to her work is an exploration of the quiet magic of life and the human tendency to seek out and create moments of beauty and stillness. Beginning from direct observation and personal experience, Gledhill often allows her paintings to shift into abstraction, guided by intuition, imagination and playful exploration.
After studying Geography in New Zealand, Gledhill moved to the UK in 2010. She studied at London Fine Art Studios, where she gained four years of formal training in painting and drawing within the figurative tradition. She has exhibited with the Federation of British Artists, at the Mall Galleries in London, and at Leighton House Museum. Gledhill has been featured in Artists and Illustrators magazine (Oct 2021) and in 2019 she was shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. Since 2021 she has been leading painting workshops for students of Oxford University, where she creates space to celebrate the craft of oil painting.
“My practice is rooted in the understanding that, like poetry, painting is really just the art of paying close attention. It is an act which invites slowness and presence. In each moment, I ask myself: Is there a painting here? I'm particularly drawn to people and how we find ways to connect to nature and each other in an increasingly fragmented world. Tangled, unruly gardens, as liminal spaces between the wild and the cultivated, are a recurring source of inspiration.”
- Stacey Gledhill
