About the Artist

My name is Stacey Haseldine, and I was born in Western Australia. I spent my younger years in the wide-open spaces of a small country town where the clear, light free sky allowed such stunning unobstructed views that my love of the stars and cloud watching led to dreams of being an astronomer or meteorologist.

I was always creative, but it was not until halfway through high school that I discovered my love for art.

On the first day of year ten I found myself uncomfortable attending my accounting class, I had never been good at math, and it had resulted in the understanding that I did not have the academic aptitude to be an astronomer or a meteorologist. I knew, even then, that my strengths were in creativity and the arts. I therefore, spoke to my school's office and asked to change classes. As if by fate, the only class available in the same time slot was Art. 

There begun my art story…

Three years later, I was the only applicant in my graduating class to be accepted into a Graduation exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. I displayed a set of cloudscape paintings called, ‘Kaleidoscope’.

I continued to dabble is many different art forms including clay, selling a series of space monsters called Mubbles (the name a mix of Hubble and Monster). These creatures reminded me of my love of space.

Then, it was time…I needed to paint again, with oils. Beginning with a few simple nebulas and a cloud painting for my father. It was then I realised I had come home, to where I should have been all along.

Oil paints are my magic and the sky, my canvas.