Lélia Pissarro sold her first canvas to Wally Findlay, a New York dealer, at the age of four, having been educated by her grandfather Paulémile and her father H.Claude Pissarro.

From infancy until the age of eleven she was entrusted to the care of her grand-parents, Paulémile Pissarro and his wife Yvonne, in Clécy, Suisse Normandy, where her interest in drawing and painting was nurtured by her grandfather who taught her the fundamental impressionist and post-impressionist techniques. When she returned to her parents in Paris at the age of 11, the role of teacher was taken over by her father and she had her first exhibit at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. At fifteen she took part in an exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, and a year later she enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Tours.

Lélia moved to London in 1988 and her work has regularly been exhibited in galleries around the world, and following the tradition of her great-grandfather, grandfather and father, Lélia has played an important role in continuing this artistic dynasty by participating in a series of exhibitions entitled Pissarro – The Four Generations. These exhibitions have been mounted in London, Tel Aviv, five major museums in Japan and the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.