Cristina is the creative director of Romualda and one of the founding sisters of the brand.
Born in Madrid, she grew up gazing at the Sierra, between the quiet of El Escorial and the lush, green meadows of Asturias, treasuring memories and the shifting colors of the skies over the spanish capital and Cantabrian Sea. From a young age, she sketched imaginary worlds, characters who spoke their own language, creatures who lived between the pages of her notebooks as if they were secret homes.
She studied Fine Arts in her hometown, where art became not just a form of expression, but a way of inhabiting the world. Later, she specialized in children’s picture books, completing a master’s degree that allowed her to explore the depths of visual storytelling — the poetry of color, the emotion suspended in an image. That intimate, symbolic language — capable of narrating without words — remains at the core of everything she creates.
Almost five years ago, together with her sister, she gave life to Romualda: a deeply personal project, built on beauty, intuition, and commitment. Since then, Cristina has shaped the brand’s visual universe, crafting prints that are not just patterns but fragments of an inner world. Within them dwell dreamlike figures, timeless landscapes, flora and fauna that invite play, contemplation, and wonder.
Yet her artistic practice reaches far beyond textiles. Cristina paints on paper, on wood, on anything that allows her to keep telling stories. She works with wax pastels, gouache, acrylics, oils, collage, threads, inks, and found materials. Her studio is both a refuge and a laboratory — a space where the tangible becomes delicately ethereal.
Her work breathes freedom, emotion, intuition. It follows no trends, no rules. It holds something of a secret ritual, a wild tenderness, a sincerity almost childlike. Each of her strokes seems to hold a story that gently unfolds before the attentive eye.
Cristina continues to create her magical worlds without borders, just as she did when she was a child. Only now, those worlds have grown with her — and with Romualda — and are shared with those who still know how to look with wide-open eyes.
Photographer: Cecilia Renard
