Christina Maximoff  began her studies of painting and art history at Saint Lukas in Brussels, continued them at Central Saint Martins in London and has studied engraving in Paris. Artist and restorer of French antiquities from the 18th and 19th centuries, specialised in gold leaf, she works the material by mixing the ancestral techniques of  gilding with contemporary materials. Christina lives and works in Paris. Since 1999 she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in London, New York, Rome, Montreux and Paris.

We had a riveting conversation about her work and how music plays a pivotal role in her artisitic process.