BOTANICAL PAINTING IN OILS AND ACRYLICS | STACY GARDOLL

Over two sessions, exhibiting artist Stacy Gardoll will guide you through her practiced approach for creating botanical painting in oils and acrylics. Offering a comprehensive lesson in crafting detailed renditions of Western Australia’s striking flora, this two-part workshop leads participants through the techniques and processes used to produce Gardoll’s bold and unique works.  

In the first session, painters will sketch out their subject on canvas and build the base tonal underprint in acrylic. In session two, add oil layers and finish by building details and texture. 

Suitable for both beginner and experienced painters. Drawing experience preferable. 

Sat 5 and 12 Jul 2025 | 10am – 12pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs

$200 | $180 Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 2

Materials

All materials supplied. Participants to bring own apron. 

Artist Bio

Hailing from Perth, Western Australia, Stacy Gardoll's early creative experiences began in theatre set design and painting. 

She received a BA Design (Three-Dimensional Design) from Curtin University in the 1990's followed by a Dip Performing Arts (Theatre Set and Costume Design) from WAAPA in 1997.

A move to Melbourne followed, where she worked as a designer, creating sets and costumes for theatre, musical theatre, and dance productions. Her passion for large-scale set painting became a hallmark of her "painterly" design style, characterized by its dynamic use of colour, texture, and scale.

Over time, this love of painting overpowered the love of theatre, and a shift in focus was made from large scale scenery to smaller scale oils on canvas. Her aesthetic is much informed by her work in the theatre, which continues to be bold, high contrast, with the use of striking saturated colours.

Stacy paints from her home studio in the foothills of Perth.