Cristina Guitian is an illustrator and artist based in London. Along her illustrations for advertising and editorial, she specialises in large scale murals and installations. Cristina has developed a distinctive visual language of her own, combining real and surreal, animal and human. This is constantly evolving into a complete mythological world of calligraphy, populated by characters with reimagined limbs and impossible machines.
Cristina’s universe is filled with visual metaphors and whimsical humour. You can see it in the huge 26 and 38 metre murals in the AMC Hospital in Amsterdam and in her interactive installation for WeTheCurious, the Museum of Science in Bristol.
You’ll find her detailed fine line drawings and minimal colour palette in commissions for a client list that extends from Google and Greggs to the Guardian and Headspace. In recent years she was commissioned to illustrate the full series of books What is the Issue?.
Her illustrations and murals have been exhibited in Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York and Tokyo. She is available for commissions and often participates in live events and workshops. Additionally, Cristina develops her fine artist practice and more experimental projects under her alter ego’s Cristina Reyes.