Born in Milan, Italy, Cristina studied at art school as a teenager before immigrating to Adelaide, where she continued her artistic education, earning a Bachelor Degree in Visual Art (First Class Honours) from Adelaide Central School of Art.

Cristina’s art practice is based on abstract paintings inspired by the natural landscape, finding inspiration in the beauty and diversity of nature. Her art delves into the profound connection between human lives and the natural landscape, exploring themes of belonging, spirit of place, and nature’s vulnerability. By merging her passion for natural sciences and psychology, she investigates how people can be positively affected by their interactions with nature.

Walking and spending time in nature, feeling connected to the land and everything in it, gives Cristina her source of inspiration, which she channels into expressive paintings back in her studio. Through an intuitive process and gestural paint applications, she depicts the feelings experienced in the natural landscape, using the material qualities of paint.

Since 2003 she has been regularly exhibiting in art galleries in South Australia and interstate. Amongst other achievements, Cristina’s light-projection work ‘Within The Landscape’ was featured in the 2022 Illuminate Adelaide Festival; she was winner of the AGES Art Prize 2021/22, QLD; she has also been a three-time finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, and three-times finalist in the Heysen Art Prize, Hahndorf Academy, SA.