The Art Of Isa Muguruza

Isa Muguruza is an illustrator who was born in Irún, on 10 February 1994. She is a graduate from the Francisco de Vitoria University near Madrid where she studied design and publicity. After her graduation, she studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. In 2019, she decided to focus on her work as an illustrator.

Her work has been described as creating a unique universe revolving around the female figure with a characteristic style that mixes realism with the psychedelic and metaphysical.

Since 2022, Isa Muguruza has been designing stamps that were printed by the Fábrica Nacional de Timbre y Moneda – Real Casa de la Moneda and issued by Correos. The stamps on subjects such as women's rights and female empowerment have been issued as part of different long-running series. The characteristic style of the artist has created a series across different series.

Love them or loathe them, the stamps jump out at you. When watching a clerk at a post office flip through a folder of stamps that, usually, do not cover any tariff or looking through the "Valores en el Tiempo" yearbooks of Spanish stamps, you, instantly, will recognise the designs by this artist.

8 March 2022
International Women's Day
#8MTodoElAño (women's rights) Campaign

29 April 2022
Efemérides (Anniversaries)
50th anniversary of the death of Clara Campoamor (12 February 1888 – 30 April 1972)
Politician, lawyer and writer, considered by some the mother of the Spanish feminist movement.

12 May 2022
Sanidad (Healthcare)
Isabel Zendal (26 February 1773 – after 14 August 1809)
Nurse, participated in the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition (1803 – 1806) that vaccinated inhabitants of Spanish America and Asia against smallpox.

27 May 2022
Escritoras (Authoresses)
Almudena Grandes (7 May 1960 – 27 November 2021)
Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections.



Madrid has been renaming its mainline train stations. Chamartín Station has been renamed Chamartín Clara Campoamor (see above). Atocha Station had been renamed Atocha – Almudena Grandes Station. I wonder what they will do with the Principe Pío Station.

30 June 2022
Mujeres en la ciencia (Women in science)
Dolors Aleu (7 April 1857 – 19 February 1913)
Medical doctor, the first woman in Spain to be licensed in medicine and the second woman in the country to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree.

18 July 2022
Escritoras (Authoresses)
Concepción Arenal (31 January 1820 – 4 February 1893)
Graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. The first woman to attend university in Spain.

14 October 1922
Mujeres en el arte (Women in arts)
María Blanchard (6 March 1881 – 5 April 1932)
Cubist painter.

3 November 2022
Personajes de la historia (Persons in history)
Luisa Roldán <<la Roldana>> (8 September 1652 – 10 January 1706)
Baroque sculptor, the earliest woman sculptor documented in Spain.

17 February 2023
Mujeres en el arte (Women in arts)
Maruja Mallo (5 January 1902 – 6 February 1995)
Surrealist painter of the "Generation of 1927" within the Spanish avant-garde movement.

28 February 2023
Efemérides (Anniversaries)
75th Anniversary of the Death of María de Maeztu (18 July 1882 - 7 January 1948)
Educator and feminist, founder of the Residencia de Señoritas and the Lyceum Club in Madrid.

22 June 2023
Escritoras (Authoresses)
Elena Fortún (18 November 1886 – 8 May 1952)
Author of children's literature.

20 September 2023
Mujeres poetas (Female poets)
Lucía Sánchez Saornil (13 December 1895 – 2 June 1970)
Poet and anarcha-feminist activist, co-founder of the anarchist Mujeres Libres organisation and served as secretary of Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista (SIA).

20 October 2023
Maestras (Teachers)
Justa Freire (4 August 1896 – 15 July 1965)
Educator and teacher, member of the Teachers Trade Union affiliated with the Unión General de Trabajadores.

30 October 2023
Mujeres en la política (Women in politics)
Federica Montseny (12 February 1905- 14 January 1994)
Anarchist and intellectual who served as Minister of Health and Social Assistance in the government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Civil War, being the first female cabinet minister in Spain.

On International Women's Day, 8 March, 2024, Correos issued another stamp in support of the #8MTodoElAño Campaign for women's rights. Like that for the 2022 issue, the design was by Isa Muguruza.

8 March 2024
International Women's Day
#8MTodoElAño (women's rights) Campaign