focus on stacy gardoll

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

Gelato Dreaming by Stacy Gardoll, Oil on canvas

‘I go on really long walks. I know where my favourites are...’.

Stacy Gardoll has favourite trees and flowers in Kings Park, the internationally renowned botanic park in the green heart of Perth, Western Australia.
This enormous expanse of trees and walkways supports conservation and restoration of biodiversity and is a preserved landscape for unique and rare Australian trees and flowers.

Searching for ‘subjects’ is a private affair. With a keen eye and camera, she searches for flowers and leaves to be featured in her botanic ‘portraits’.

Floral clusters, gum nuts, and leaves in her paintings are selected with the intention to draw the eyes into the details not seen with a cursory glance or captured from a distance.

Kruseana Rhapsody by Stacy Gardoll, Oil on canvas

The Eucalyptus species – her favourites – are centre stage with Grevilleas and Hakeas.

That ability - to zone in - might have been developed early on. For her high school work experience, Stacy volunteered for set design at the Hole in the Wall theatre in Leederville. She went on to study costume and set design at the WA Academy of Performing Arts.

‘I wanted to create little worlds. I loved writing and literature, and set design seemed to combine them’.

A career with Melbourne theatres refined those skills with commissions occurring annually for the next decade.

‘I became more painterly with finishes, layering from underneath, adding textures to create the 3-dimensional appearances on stage’. Everything from landscapes to interiors, all pivotal to setting the stage, drawing the audience into an unfolding story.

Bountiful by Stacy Gardoll, Oil on canvas

Stacy and her young family moved back to the west, and she was soon participating in painting classes. Oil paintings, originally landscapes, referenced dozens of photos, a method which continues.

Her paintings transmit the stillness experienced only in the bush; rhythms that become apparent when standing still in nature with bird song and the sounds of the trees. 

Her intention, ‘for the self to be still. To almost be in nature without being there’.

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