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Working in oil on linen, board and card, Stacey Gledhill's paintings move between landscape, garden, interiors and the quiet choreography of daily life.
At the centre of her practice is attention - the sustained, almost devotional act of looking that painting demands. 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 both the maker and the viewer, is what painting is ultimately for. But beneath the apparent quietness of her subjects runs a deeper preoccupation: what does it mean to paint the living world in a time of its unravelling?
Gledhill trained in environmental science in New Zealand before she trained as a painter, and the two ways of seeing remain deeply intertwined. Her gardens, flowers and landscapes are painted with the knowledge that they are changing — that the warmth in a late-summer evening, the abundance of a wildflower border, the moon over a darkened field, carry a weight beyond beauty.
Her paintings are something close to bearing witness. To paint a sunflower turning at the end of its season, or a mountain through a night window next to a sleeping baby, or flowers carefully placed in a glass vase, is to insist on the value of the living world. These are hopeful paintings. But the hope has been earned.
Stacey Gledhill is a New Zealand-born painter based in Oxford, UK. She moved to the UK in 2010 and 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 widely, including at The Mall Galleries London, Leighton House Museum, and with the Federation of British Artists. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. Her work has been featured in Artists & Illustrators and other publications.
Recent exhibitions include selection for the Hampstead Art Society Annual Exhibition and Works on Paper Exhibition (2025), a contribution of original artwork to the Oxford Review of Books (2026), and selection for the Irving Gallery Open Exhibition, Oxford (2026).
Since 2021 Gledhill has taught oil painting through her own practice, Studio Gledhill. She has also taught as an online art educator for Penn Studio School of Art (2025–26). Her students have included Oxford University students, beginners, and practising artists looking to deepen their practice.
