I'm Stella Robinson Lightheart:
Artist & Emmy-winning Editor
With a painter’s heart & storyteller’s eye,
I make original paintings & bring them into motion:
living portals shaped by memory, myth & movement.
Images caught in the act of becoming, crossing from one state into the next.
KIA ORA, FRIENDS
Colour, learning to move.
Emotional Landscapes
A figure moves through a landscape that transforms as it goes… terrain answering the feeling. Painting, motion and the body together, mapping an inner passage onto an outer one.
The fullest form of my work.
THE CROSSING
The Still Work
Before anything moves, it begins here: ink poured and coaxed across paper, then framed and still. Originals you can live with: the source every living portal grows from.
BY HAND
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"Twirling through Galaxies", 2019
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"Galaxy Rose", 2019
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"To Coddiwomple", 2019
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"NCG-602 Nebula", 2024
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"Hwyl", 2019
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"The Chakras", 2021
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"Glowing with Grace", 2021
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"Bloom", 2019
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!["Away with the Faeries", 2019]()
"Away with the Faeries", 2019
Studies in Transmutation
Looped studies of colour dissolving & re-forming.
Transformation through the old alchemical arc: the blackening, the whitening, the reddening.
An unfolding series, made one crossing at a time. Currently in production.
THE SERIES
THE ARTIST
An Unusual Road
A film trade school in New Zealand rather than an art degree.
An editorial career that earned an Emmy.
Years of teaching myself by following the work past the edge of what I already knew.
The craft I built telling other people's stories, I've turned toward my own.
Emmy-winning Editor · Self-taught Painter · Based in Los Angeles
Press
IN THE WORLD
On art as healing, the Emmy win, and the journey from the English countryside to Los Angeles
On painting as therapy, working with Peter Jackson, and building an art business in LA
On returning to her Cheshire roots after Hollywood, and exhibiting at Saturday Gallery, Macclesfield
On returning to her Cheshire roots after Hollywood, and exhibiting at Saturday Gallery, Macclesfield
On intuition-led creativity, diversifying as an artist, and treating art like a business
On Celtic mythology, abstract expressionism, and coming home to paint in Cheshire
On Celtic mythology, abstract expressionism, and coming home to paint in Cheshire
A gift from the studio
Take a living portal with you
Take the 45-second Find Your Glow quiz and I'll send you a free animated loop of your own:
A small living portal for your phone or screen, matched to the colour you move toward.
Cinematic Practice
As an Emmy-winning Animatic Editor, I shape visual stories for film, television, and streaming, including Netflix Animation's
StoryBots: Answer Time.
That editorial eye lives in every painting I make:
The pacing of a story. The beat of a scene. The arc of transformation.
Collaborate With Me
Great art changes how a space feels.
If you're ready to bring that into your world, let's talk.
I work with individuals, brands & creative directors on custom animated paintings, visual atmospherics, brand motion storytelling, and lightbox or projection design.
I’d love to work with you.
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