Finding meaning with Jessi Kwanda

The FIU community brings together several creative people and especially illustrators and designers. This is where we met several artists from Barcelona.

Earlier in March, we met Jessi Kwanda a 31 years old illustrator who’s confidently defining her own style.

In this third article, we’ll highlight a talented woman who started from a design career but who ended up pivoting to a real passion: illustrations.

While she was looking for the freedom of creating what could sustain her, Jessi decided to leave her comfort zone and move from the Northern Spain to Barcelona and started a master in creative publicity.

Starting from this period, she developed hand stroke skills.

She explained that illustration became her therapy.

As many of us have a way to externalize our feelings, Jessi Kwanda found in this passion a way to express her emotions and to tell her truth.

Furthermore, it’s during this journey that Jessi started to be a part of the community:

“It’s been four months that I get to know FIU, a friend of mine introduced me the place as a co-working place that attends workshops and events with a different type of emerging artists”

Jessi is currently working on her portfolio and in love with the animal world, she created a series of illustrations only focused on animals, and especially insects.

Jessi also oriented her illustrations through women from a different culture. She approaches this new series by drawing typical women regarding each country and culture. Playing with colors, she’s using a minimum of them and focus on meticulous details.

Her goals is to work and keep dreaming despite the problems lived in the past.

check her work at: https://www.behance.net/jessikwanda/

Adama Keita / Carolina Diaz