Stéphanie Varela French artist and film maker, specialising in Motion
Painting, an art form which she incorporates into her film work to
create sensitive and highly individual visual images.
Her work has been favourably noticed by great artists such as David
Lynch and Serge Bromberg.
Recurring themes in her artistic output are : Surrealism, magic and
dreams, childhood, femininity, the power of love and relationships, the
natural and animal world.
Her work encompasses : Motion Painting, Peinture Animée, History of
cinema and Animation, Performance Art, Contemporary art film,
Documentary film , Art education, Advertising (ORANGE, YOGI TEA etc.)
Her Doctoral Thesis on Motion Painting, published in 2010 by Editions
L'Harmattan, Paris, in their Collection Champs Visuels, under the title
: "La Peinture Animée entre Peinture et Cinéma" - incorporating "Essai
sur Emile Reynaud (1844-1918)", the first in depth academic study of
the subject.
Dr Stéphanie Varela gives lectures on Motion Painting and pre-cinema
history and conducts seminars and practical workshops in this animation
technique as well as pursuing her own exploration of this art form in
her practice a painter and film director.