Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Pop-Surrealist Illustrator

Daria Petrilli is an award winning illustrator, born in Rome, Italy.

After graduating with an MA in Communication and Design at the Università La Sapienza, she took on various agency roles as a graphic designer and illustrator in Rome.

Later she moved to London, where she completed a Diploma in Experimental Illustration at the LCC - part of the University of the Arts London, achieving the highest possible grade.

In Daria Petrilli’s artworks the female figures appear ethereal and unreachable.

he artist inserts them into a fairy-tale afterlife where they are often accompanied by animals.

In clothes from a distant era, these pale Victorian beauties may look to the viewer with a piercing gaze.

Some extend long fingers into the nothingness, reminiscent of the Italian Mannerist painter Bronzino.

In Daria Petrilli’s extraordinary works, the women become mystical beings, their bodies adorned with shells and flowers.

They are surrounded by ibises, parrots, or geese that appear more like the heralds of purgatory than birds of paradise.

The artist says: "To me, these birds are messengers of primordial obsessions. That is why they appear in my work so often".

Her illustrations are selected for further contest of the industry, including, Fiera di Bologna illustrators, Illustrarte Lisbon Biennial of Tehran.

For four years, the mother of a child to whom he dedicates most of his work and of his time.

Daria Petrilli’s style blurs the lines between reality and imagination.

With her singular visual vocabulary, she guides us into mystical worlds, making the subjects’ loneliness almost physically perceptible.

The artist finds the balance between the Italian Renaissance and the subversive language of Pop Surrealism.

"My works cross the boundaries between reality and imagination with an elegant language that plays on the 'file rouge' of ambiguity.

I am an artist and illustrator; my imagery reinterprets the enchantment of the Italian Renaissance with an underground and pop surrealist language".

L'artista romana Daria Petrilli nasce come illustratrice e lavora soprattutto nel campo dell’illustrazione editoriale, nella realizzazione di libri per bambini, copertine, magazine, in Italia ed all’estero.

Daria Petrilli, già ampiamente affermata nel mondo dell’editoria per l’infanzia sia italiana che francese, è vincitrice del Premio Accademia Pictor Torino dal 2006-2008 nonché membro dell’Associazione Italiana Illustratori per la quale si è aggiudicata gli Awards dal 2005-2008.

Ha esposto in mostre nazionali ed internazionali.

Ha partecipato a numerosi concorsi da Bologna a Theran, da Torino a Lisbona.

Le sue tavole sono editate in serie limitate di Fine Art.

Ha illustrato libri, copertine di riviste, campagne pubblicitarie e di comunicazione.

La sua capacità creativa di creare ansamble armonici le ha permesso di disegnare collezioni moda e vestire linee di prodotti per aziende prestigiose come Shiseido.