Silvia Pelissero

ABOUT SILVIA PELISSERO

Painter and artist who is known for her watercolored portraits and studies of the human form. Balancing on the edge of abstraction and impressionism, her figures are often painted in reds and blues and she shares both their sketches and finished versions to Instagram and her over 370,000 followers.

She first began drawing when she was a child. When she was fifteen, she published her first set of watercolor paintings online under the moniker Agnes Cecile. By expanding her art to social media in April of 2013, she began having solo exhibitions throughout Italy.

In addition to her Instagram, she also runs an online web store at agnescecile.com where she sells a range of original paintings, prints of her work, and other accessories with her artwork printed on them such as phone cases and multi framed prints.

She was born and raised in Rome, Italy.

Other painters from Italy include Caravaggio , Mino Argento , and Umberto Boccioni .