Electra Varnava was born on July 20, 1988, in Limassol, Cyprus. She graduated from the Department of Visual and Applied Arts at the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006–2011), where she studied on a scholarship from the Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation (IKY).

She has participated in several group exhibitions, including the 15th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean – Symbiosis, and has received several distinctions in art competitions both in Cyprus and abroad. In 2015, she was honored for her diligence and professionalism at a Fine Art Festival in Lisbon.

In Varnava’s work, the human form becomes a field of internal tension, surreal dislocation, and personal awakening. Rooted in realism yet reaching toward the metaphysical, her portraits and constructed scenes do not merely depict the figure — they transform it into a psychological landscape. Each painting unfolds as an open process of discovery, often guided by spontaneous interventions that reveal emotional and conceptual layers beyond the original intention.

The result is not a single truth, but a constellation of shifting perspectives — sometimes contradictory, always intimate. Her imagery invites the viewer into the space between order and disorder, observation and action, memory and the body. Subtle narratives, infused with irony or quiet paradox, evoke a world where stillness carries meaning and the surreal emerges from the everyday.

In a world that passively watches, Electra paints those who choose to move.