Maria Cristina was born in Rio de Janeiro. But she spent most of her life in São-Paulo. She also lived in Brasilia, Paris, Buenos Aires,Mexico, Athens and Montpellier, France who she lives  now. Self-taught, Cristina took up painting as a teen-ager.
In her naïve style, she has illustrated various themes, such as Brazil, her own country, France, Greece etc... She mostly tells stories referring either to the Bible (Noe’s Arch,  the Creation of the World), or the music (Vivaldi’s four seasons) or to famous pieces of literature (La Fontaine’s, The cicada and the ant, Homer’s Odyssey...). Her painting is happy, bright and minutely detailed.
Maria Cristina has also tried other techniques : engraving and also tempera (she has painted her own icons). Her oil painting is benefiting from those techniques she has discovered while travelling around the world.
She realized a personal exhibition in São-Paulo and took part in several collective exhibitions : Nature in Brazil, Art on Stone, Grande collective of Brazilian naïve Art, Brazil Festival in Athen’s Hilton and also Panorama Latinoamericana in Santorini.
But her works are to be found principally in private collections. One of them, Le Mont Saint Michel is an illustration of the book La Cité des Naïfs and can be seen in the Musée d’Art Naïf in Paris’ Montmartre.

P A I N T I N G S
Oil on canvas