- Agnes Celie’s real name is Silvia Pelissero and was born in 1991, Itlay.
- Her education only consists of a art high school in Rome, where after she continued to be self-taught.
- Some of her most favourite visual artists include Van Gogh, Munch, Caravaggio, Schiele, Kandinsky, Pollock, Bacon, Freud, Woodman, Svankmajer, Barney, Cattelan, Hirst…
“My creative process consists of taking notes on my sketch book about keywords I want to convey, then make few fast sketches of images that could be the best to represent them.I choose the final sketch, add some details and then I go straight away on canvas. And usually on canvas, starting from the sketch idea, I improvise following the inspiration of the moment.”
- Agnes Cecile uses simple images and creates truly amazing emotional portraits through colours and movement
- Her work is abstract yet detail at the same time and shows some kind of realism.
- Every portrait is unique and has its own character but they still manage to capture the artists style
- Cecile create her backgrounds using bold brush strokes combined with interesting splatters, drips and hints of explosive colours
- Her work also contains a lot of butterflies and birds, which I believe symbolises freedom and femininity
- The mediums Cecile uses are watercolours, inks, acrylic, oil and enamel paints
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Although Agnes Cecile mainly works in watercolours, I wanted to try out this technique with acrylic paint by watering them down too get a liquid like consistency. I had used watercolour techniques like this before and acrylics in comparison were disastrous, I think that painting on a primed surface instead of paper didn't help either as there was no where for the liquid to be absorbed and the drying time took ages.
