Marta Alvarez Miguens

Marta Alvarez Miguens is a children's book illustrator. Born in 1976 in a small town in Galicia, Spain, she has lived in Santiago de Compostela, Bordeaux, and Berlin. She currently lives in La Coruña, Spain. Marta has been illustrating professionally since 2002 for publishers such as Santillana, Anaya, Edelvives, and Oxford University Press. Her artwork is characterized by happy colors and cute children and animals. She uses digital techniques to create her pictures, which gives her more freedom to experiment with color and textures. She has also worked in gouache and watercolor. In her spare time, Marta loves playing with her three cats, walking in the woods, watching movies, and drinking a cup of coffee with her friends.