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Amsterdam AMC Hospital
The Amsterdam AMC Hospital is a hulking architectural monster on the edge of the city, concealing one of the best hospitals in the country. Along with 8 other illustrators, I was commissioned by the local interior architecture studio Opera to bring some life to the space.
I was given the staff area where the doctors and nurses have their offices. I created 2 murals, one of 26 m long, and the one shown here, 38 m long, the biggest artwork I have yet created.
The brief was to illustrate the human body and the miracle of life.
Cristina Guitian studied illustration in Madrid, before beginning her career as an illustrator when she moved to London in
I had total creative freedom to tackle the subject from a different angle than what might be traditionally expected. I spent the following two months visiting medical museums and libraries here in London, discovering and sketching interesting facts and curiosities.
Before long I had built up my own library of quotes and ideas that served as the inspiration for the content of the full artwork.
My original ink drawings formed a continuous