My name is Kwennie and I’m a visual storyteller from the Netherlands, working between illustration, journalism and data.

After graduating from AKV St. Joost in Breda, I began my career in editorial illustration. Working with newsrooms sparked a growing interest in the stories behind the images and I gradually moved from illustrating journalism to actively shaping it.

Around the same time I discovered data journalism, a field that immediately clicked with my long-standing love for maths. It offers a way to combine analysis, reporting and visual storytelling.

Today my work moves between data visualisation, illustration and journalistic storytelling. Sometimes the starting point is a dataset, sometimes a narrative, but the aim is always the same: to turn complex information into stories that are clear, engaging and visually compelling.

Everything on this site is in English to make it accessible to an international audience. I’m based in Amsterdam and work in both English and Dutch.