“Agnes Cecile” was born Silvia Pelissero in 1991 in Rome, Italy. The city is famed for its artistic masterpieces that can be found in churches and museums around Rome. As a country, Italy has a long cultural history and has been home to famous artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Caravaggio. Although Agnes Cecile is still very young, she is quickly gaining a fan base and has been featured on websites like This is Colossal and Juxtapoz Magazine. If she continues to gain popularity at her current rate, she might one day end up displaying her art beside the masters. She is definitely an artist to keep an eye on.
Cecile’s watercolor paintings are highly expressive. The artist uses a variety of watercolor painting techniques in her art works without limiting herself within the traditional confines of her medium. Agnes Cecile’s paintings have eye-catching colors and shapes that reveal the opinions and emotions of the artist. Cecile applies paint in blotches, splashes and lines to creates her paintings, highlighting and adding detail with pens and pencils to create the finished result. Agnes Cecile’s portraits often depict the subjects’ faces as having a halo of color around their heads; wild patterns of blotched and splattered paint and blurred pencil that give the portraits a spiritual, emotional effect. The effect gives the impression that the subjects’ thoughts and feelings are invisible to the naked eye, but are revealed through the lens of Cecile’s paintings.
Agnes Cecile has been featured on Mayhem and Muse before in Agnes Cecile’s World of Watercolor. You can visit the artist Agnes Cecile at her online art gallery for more splashy watercolor paintings and links to buy her art prints online.
