Born and raised on the (tiny) Mediterranean island of Malta, Kristina bounced around a lot over the last decade or so, geographically and creatively. After studying Fine Art and Art History and working in art restoration, she stepped away from her pencils for a while and completed a Masters in Arts and the Sacred with the National Gallery and King’s College in London. Two years into a seven year stint in the frozen prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada, she started creating digital doodles - her version of a diary. What started as a way of visually chronicling her musings; embracing her inner ramblings, her foreignness in moments when pop culture references went over my head; became a line of tongue-in-cheek greeting cards and prints under the name “island and the prairies”. I started doing custom work and discovered I was utterly in love with the art of illustration. Now my work can be found on billboards and websites, in magazines and social feeds, on album covers and band tees, and where it all started - on stationery store shelves.